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JSWolf · 07-01-2014, 03:05 PM

I have never heard (or read of) anyone complaining that a pBook needs paragraph spaces. A pBook (most of the time) uses indents instead of paragraph spaces.

A lot of those layout suggestions make for a lousy read as the formatting will then get in the way of the book. You want formatting that isn't obvious when you are reading.

But these people who do prefer to mangle the formatting of their eBooks, did they ever complain about pBooks needing all this excess space?

1.5em between lines with a 1.25em paragraph space is going to interfere with reading. You'll be focused on the poorly formatted book more so then the words. I have seen a number of eBooks these days formatted with a .3em line space and a 1.2em indent. personally, I'd remove the .3em paragraph space, but even so, .3em is not unreadable. The eye doesn't stop on a blank line because it's not a full blank line.

Using a sans-serif font is not all that wonderful for the body text. Sans-serif should be used for headers/titles/highlighting/offsetting text but not for the body text.

I will defend people's right to hypocritically mangle their eBooks if they want just as it's my right to point out how wrong it is.

07-01-2014, 03:05 PM	#14
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 80,096 Karma: 148565303 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	I have never heard (or read of) anyone complaining that a pBook needs paragraph spaces. A pBook (most of the time) uses indents instead of paragraph spaces. A lot of those layout suggestions make for a lousy read as the formatting will then get in the way of the book. You want formatting that isn't obvious when you are reading. But these people who do prefer to mangle the formatting of their eBooks, did they ever complain about pBooks needing all this excess space? 1.5em between lines with a 1.25em paragraph space is going to interfere with reading. You'll be focused on the poorly formatted book more so then the words. I have seen a number of eBooks these days formatted with a .3em line space and a 1.2em indent. personally, I'd remove the .3em paragraph space, but even so, .3em is not unreadable. The eye doesn't stop on a blank line because it's not a full blank line. Using a sans-serif font is not all that wonderful for the body text. Sans-serif should be used for headers/titles/highlighting/offsetting text but not for the body text. I will defend people's right to hypocritically mangle their eBooks if they want just as it's my right to point out how wrong it is.