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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I don't have any print books with spaces between paragraphs. The first time I encountered that particular styling choice was in ebooks. Granted, it's common with webpages and it doesn't bother me there, because usually I use the internet on my laptop. But it does bother me on a smaller screen.
As to poor font choices, yes those did bother me in paper books, but it was not possible to change them, so I just had to swallow it. Fortunately it is possible to change anything you want in an ebook.
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In fiction, that's true. Non-fiction, obviously, not so much, and it terms of "other" spacing, of course, fiction has had scene-breaks forever, that affect the spacing. Nonfiction's always had it with heads, subheads, run-in heads and so on and so forth.
My point being, whether it's spacing, fonts, justification versus not, etc., somehow, everyone managed to survive it, without keeling over dead from the horror, when they only had print books. I don't recall a lot of Sturm und Drang at the bookstore, from appalled and horrified buyers, banding together with pitchforks to go slay the typographer or the publisher.
So, like everything
else in self-publishing (like people complaining to Amazon about--
gasp!--typos, and expecting them to be fixed RIGHT AWAY!), the immediacy of digital publishing and self-gratification has affected the view of how
important or how unlivable these things are.
That's all.
Hitch