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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have to disagree on non-fiction. What works to read fiction also works to read non-fiction. Paragraph spaces don't work. They cause the eyes to see the space and it slows down reading. Also if you have no indent, it means you need to see the space in order to know you've moved to another paragraph. The indents are a quick indication that we've moved to a new paragraph. But if you have a section break, it's oK to not have an indent on the first paragraph of the new section as we've seen the section break and know we are coming up on a new paragraph in a new section.
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I think it just depends on the sort of book. If I'm reading a guidebook or some reference material and am literally just flitting my eyes across a page hunting for some topic or other, I think I'd rather the paragraph spacing. But if it's meant for continuous reading, is basically telling a "story", then the same rules apply as for fiction.