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Originally Posted by Rev. Bob
In your opinion.
Others, like myself, are perfectly happy with the occasional blank line at the end of a screen if it means not having one line of a paragraph on a different screen from the rest of it; it's easier for us to read the paragraph as a whole that way. It's the way tree-books have been done for decades, if not centuries, and the only reason you don't notice it there is that there are subtle typographical tricks that can be used to camouflage the missing line. However, those tricks don't work unless the layout is fixed and immutable, which is why they don't work on ebooks or websites.
Frankly, the occasional blank line isn't worth breaking standards over.
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Sure, it is just my opinion and I was trying to find some common ground as there is no perfect solution.
If it were just an occasional blank line I would not be bothered at all but it just happens to frequently to call it occasional (it varies, but on average every 3-4-5 pages).
And because there are no subtle typographical tricks to camouflage this in "digital print" (stricktly limited to the epub format here. To avoid other discussions.) it also becomes too visible. Which is fine for some, and bothering for others. Setting the values to one would not make reading more 'difficult' but it does improve the overall look-and-feel of displayed text on e-readers.
But yes, that is just my take.