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Originally Posted by howyoudoin
Nah. Paragraphs need spacing. Paragraphs without spacing is like mixing your soup and salad and main course and dessert into one single bowl and chomping away. Civilised folk don't get distracted by having to change dishes over the course of a meal and civilised folk don't get distracted by spaces between paragraphs. What is jarring is paragraphs running into each other with no distinction whatsoever. People shouldn't be miserly with their dishes and cutlery, and people shouldn't be miserly with their screen real estate. It's just good taste to have the spaces between paragraphs.
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I think you have it all wrong here. You don't have paragraphs with no distinction. That's called an INDENT! Yes, an INDENT is what tells you you are reading a new paragraph. Unless it's a paragraph that starts a chapter or a section breaks and then you have space to differentiate the paragraph.
You are thinking of the old eReader format that had a paragraph space and no INDENT. It needed the paragraph space because there was no INDENT.
So yes, an INDENT tells you you are at the start of a new paragraph. You don't need a paragraph space. A paragraph space is distracting and makes for a very uncomfortable read.
Using your analogy of a meal, paragraph spaces are like after you eat a full mean and then vomit it all back up. It's that bad. an INDENT and no paragraph spaces is your proper meal. The soup, the salad, the main course, and the dessert all served properly and not together.