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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Actually, large paragraph spaces make books hard to read.

That is your opinion.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Question, before eBooks, printed books didn't have paragraph spaces. So how did you manage to read them if they were so hard to read?

Sure they did. There are multiple different ways to separate paragraphs.

Here is a list of some of them:

https://www.fonts.com/content/learni...aph-formatting

And I just stumbled across a fantastic in-depth answer discussing paragraph spacing:

https://english.stackexchange.com/qu...hen-do-you-not

Also, it seems like lately I have been stressing ebooks for accessibility reasons. Here is one of the Accessibility Style Guides that was linked on Wikipedia (I recommend reading through it):

http://www.aph.org/edresearch/lpguide.htm

APH encourages its writers to:

• Indent 1 inch at margins
• Justify left margin, unjustify right margin
• Use a wide, san-serif font for ample kerning
• Space 1.25 between lines, especially on forms where underscores and boxes are used to provide space for writing
• Double space (30-34 pt) between paragraphs or other bodies of text
• Use block paragraph style, no indents

Or http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about-...le-guide.html:

Layout.

• Use left-justified with ragged right edge.
• Avoid narrow columns (as used in newspapers).
• Lines should not be too long: 60 to70 characters.
• Avoid cramping material and using long, dense paragraphs: space it out.
• Line spacing of 1.5 is preferable.
• Avoid starting a sentence at the end of a line.
• Use bullet points and numbering rather than continuous prose.

Now, while a lot of these Style Guides you find are aimed towards PRINT, there is no reason you can't commandeer some of the ideas and use them in ebooks as well.

Side Note: You may also want to look around for Web Design Style Guides (aimed towards accessibility). Those might also have many good ideas to bring over into ebooks.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I've never once heard anyone say (or saw anyone write) that paper books need paragraph spaces to make them easier to read. I've heard complains about some books having too small a font size, but never about anyone wanting paragraph spaces.

I would recommend looking up a lot of the accessibility articles, and accessibility typography. And just because YOU don't prefer it that way, doesn't mean others can't prefer/need it differently. And this is one of the fantastic thing about ebooks, is that you CAN easily change this with the push of a few buttons on your device (IF the book is coded properly, and not mangled with hard returns).