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Originally Posted by murg
Scene breaks should not be handled in CSS.
Scene breaks are content, not formatting.
For eReaders (which means epubs) scene breaks should be something other than a space, either asterisks or a line or something. A space scene break will completely disappear if it is displayed at the top or bottom of the screen.
This is why physical books use * * * if the scene break is at the top of bottom of a physical page.
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Well, that's a moot point, since I reckon about 90-95 % of all the ebooks I've read have scene breaks that are just white space. Almost never dashes or asterisks or what have you.
I guess my perspective is that it is vastly preferable for this to be handled in css, since that makes it so much easier for me to change it to my preference, instead of hunting down every instance of extra "manual" line breaks in a text.
The funny thing is, I probably wouldn't even have started caring about any of this if sloppy publisher formatting hadn't reached a certain threshold with me and I finally had enough and wouldn't take it anymore. I might still be a docile, DRM-accepting, model customer if I hadn't gotten fed up with this kind of crap
Now I won't even consider buying a book if I can't download the file and de-DRM it (some releases on the Kobo store are like this - direct download to device only) and edit the formatting and NOT LEAST correct spelling and other errors (which are still depressingly rife even with new releases). If they introduce true non-removable DRM across the board, well, I have enough books already to last well into my retirement - and I'm only 41
