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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Yes, pBooks are justified, hyphenated, have indents, and no paragraph spaces. Did anyone complain about that format before Readers were invented?
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Maybe not complaints. But I know I've pointed out in the past that the magical, perfectly uniform typography of commercially published pbooks, that many people insist on referring to never really existed in the first place. It's a myth. I can pull commercially published books off of my shelf that are ragged right. I can pull some down that have spaces between all paragraphs. Some that have no indent on first paragraphs, and some that do. Some that have a crap-ton of vertical space before new chapter headers and some that have none (and everything in between). Some with hyphens, some with rivers of white. Some with huge paragraph indents, some with tiny ones. Way too much line-spacing and lines that almost touch each other.
The fact is that there has always been a wide disparity of notions about how text was
supposed to look on a page--physical or electronic. Enough so that I feel confident in doubting just about anybody who says "this is the way it's supposed to be done." *shrug*