[davidfor]

Originally Posted by Ripplinger

I prefer no spacing because that's the way paper books are so that's what I'm used to. I have never seen any paper book have spacing between paragraphs, not once.

Spacing between paragraphs is required on forums because none of them are set up to auto-indent. I've seen a few public domain ebooks like that and I hate reading them, I have to edit them to no space between paragraphs and indented.

I'm with you on the indent and no spacing and I'm sure it is related to past experience. But...

I very often start reading the kepub version of books I have bought from Kobo. If the formatting bugs me, then I fix it in the epub and read that. While doing this, I realised that for short paragraphs, the spacing aids comprehension. I think that for a paragraph of about four or five lines, I could see the whole thing in one go and absorb it. Once the paragraph got longer, it didn't help. For single lines of dialog, it doesn't seem to help either.

I'm sticking with indent and no spacing, but, I'm not in as much of a hurry to reformat books that use spacing now.

I really wonder how anyone got used to spacing between paragraphs unless they have only been brought up on ebooks and not paper books at all?

I think blame it on the web. I don't think early browsers support indenting, or at least not easily. And I think people now consider it the style for the web.