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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Why is it that publishers feel it is OK to start each XML file at 15% from the top of the screen? That's just a waste of screen space and looks awful.
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Because it is normal in many print books to start a new chapter about 30-50% down the page. I have many that do this, and I'm not surprised publishers are just copying this to digital books.
The things I find way more irritating are the ones that are very common in ebooks, but which I've never seen in print books (it may exist in print, I've just never actually seen it):
- Have a white line between every paragraph.
- Have a white line of half height between every paragraph
- Have a ragged right (non-justified) text.
- Tiny indents (1-2 characters)
- Huge indents (Sometimes up to 2 inches...)
- No hyphenation
Some publishers even combine multiple of these, which, if it also has some errors in it, make the book look like some pirated versions. (I'm looking at you, Picador, regarding those *dreadfully* laid out books by Lian Hearn. They were even missing the maps and persona listings!)