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Originally Posted by Sirtel
Certainly it's not wrong. It's a matter of personal preference. Me, I'm all for paragraph spacing on the computer screen, and it's not so bad in nonfiction books, but I absolutely detest paragraph spacing in novels I read for pleasure on my kindle (I've recently been thinking of getting a Kobo reader as well, I've heard they're more customizable than Kindles, but haven't yet). Off they go from every novel I buy, if it has them. The same goes for embedded fonts (I prefer sans-serif), paragraph indents bigger than 1 em and huge line spacing. Generally it takes a couple of minutes to fix a book, unless formatting is a total mess (I read quite a lot of indies and self-pubs, and they're often not particularly well formatted).
I do not mind those things so much in a paper book, but for some reason they bother me terribly when I read on my kindle. Possibly it's because the screen is smaller than the page of an average printed book.
But it's my personal preference and everyone who wants paragraph spacing is welcome to it.  Fortunately, it's as easy to add spaces between paragraphs as it is to remove them. |
I agree, each to what they find comfortable. One poster insisted so often that reading landscape with a wider margin was faster and easier and more comfortable. I eventually tried it and surprisingly concluded they were right.
But.. the buttons were no longer conveniently located, plus I had to set up each book etc. so I was soon of that method.
I like my books a certain way, font size, spacing, indent etc, that many would abhor and that is what I use when practical, but I can read library books for example, that are formatted quite differently without getting all bent out of shape.
Occasionally I lend someone an ereader and sometimes they ask why my books are formatted this way, often followed a day or so later, by how can they format their books this way.
Helen