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Originally Posted by Joques
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.
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I think the Baen books always have a positive scene break, usually asterisks.
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Originally Posted by Joques
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.
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The problem with this is that block quotes look like scene breaks.
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Originally Posted by Joques
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  |
I've seen the insides of far too many ebooks.
Some are relatively clean, with normal paragraphs and slightly different paragraphs that are the scene breaks. These are usually the ebooks that were built from the original electronic files (i.e. not scanned).
Then we have the scanned books, were there are all different ways of doing scene breaks, in the same book.