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Originally Posted by stumped
you should also consider your audience.
you may think dropcaps look cool- the readers of your book(s) may not
personally I detest them and they are the first things I rip out of my to-read copy of any book. - so there goes all your hard work!
i think they had their place , in the dark ages, keeping bored monks awake as they hand copied.
now they just reduce overall readability ( several empirical studies have confirmed - ask google)
and the smaller the device screen , the more annoying they become.
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I would argue that in one way, they are more-needed now than they were before. The purpose of boxed Caps--which is, after all, what Monks were using--was to indicate the start of new sections, for the reader. Today, in those very same small screens, it can be nearly impossible to tell where a scene-break has occurred, especially if the preceding paragraph is on one screen and the new scene on another.
Incipits had a purpose--and they still do. They weren't only decorative.
Did you rip them out of your print books, too, when you bought a MM PPBK? Just because the 4.25” x 6.87” didn't have a very large page? Presumably not, right?
Personally, I
loathe books that look like unvarnished Word files. To me, that's the height of laziness on the part of the publisher. It's the very reason I got into the business in the first place. {shrug}
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