Typography is irrelevant in my opinion. There was never any consistency in print books with regard to typography either, so I don't understand where the whole "
what it's supposed to look like" mentality for ebooks comes from. I can pull books off my shelves at random (and have before) and find a myriad of differences in how different publishers thought first-paragraph indents (or lack thereof), first line indents (or lack thereof) paragraph spacing, scene-break handling, etc... should be handled.
The variations in print never bothered me, and the variations in how ebooks are "typographically" rendered (by design or by rendering engine) don't bother me either. As long as I can tell when a new paragraph is starting, everything else is pretty-much water off a duck's back.
I need to remember this for when the next "negatives/positives of ebooks" thread gets started...
Ebook Negatives: ebooks created an army of armchair e-typographers.
