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Old 09-26-2015, 11:24 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
Probably because I prefer it that way (and am surely not alone). I find starting a new chapter with no large top margin (even upwards of 50%) to look as "awful" as you think a top margin of 15% looks. It screams "amateurish" to me.

If anything, I find that vertical spacing in ebooks needs to be exaggerated (compared to pbooks) to be effective--in almost every case. I don't really care about "wasting" screen space. I've never run out of screen in all the time I've been reading ebooks.

My question is: why has ereading turned so many readers into armchair typography (and book formatting) experts?
You're not alone. If ebooks were to break hundreds of years of sane and reasonable pbook design by annihilating the top margin on new chapters, maybe I would finally be driven to compulsively edit all my pbooks. Or just give up on them.
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