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I'm 75 and I've been reading novels since I was 4, so 71 years. I've been reading ebooks for about 25 or 30 years along with paper books and now for the last 6 or 7 years, just ebooks.
During that entire time the concept of a standard way for books to look just never occurred to me, probably because they all had their own unique look and style. Now that you have me thinking about it I'm glad that's how it is. Please, please, please don't make books all look the same.
Frankly I don't care that much. What a book looks like, the style of it's printing and formatting, has little impact on the story in most cases. Or, if it does, I'm not aware of it. There have been a few exceptions such as books by Alfred Bester where the layout of the text was almost pictoral in places. Usually though, a book has it's own font and spacing and margins and that's just fine with me.
Barry
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