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Originally Posted by tompe
I have actually never seen that method. Do you have an example title?
I have never seen a book using space and some symbols for the same thing. To me that just seems to be bad typography.
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I don't have an example, finding one in a currently available book isn't easy, because I don't have too many current physical books.
The reason the book designers do this is that a scene at the top or bottom of a page will get lost, as there is no previous or following paragraph.
When books get scanned, the publishers leave the existing asterisks in, but use spacing to delineate middle of the physical page scene breaks. This is why you'll get occasional sets of asterisks in scanned commercial books.