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Originally Posted by RobertJSawyer
An opinion, but hardly the only one. In books that use blank lines with no typographic ornaments to indicate scene or section changes (and that is a great number of books), leaving blank space at the bottom of the screen confusingly makes it look like the current scene has ended ... only to find that it continues on the next screen and THAT can interrupt the flow of reading/understanding.
Widow/orphan control is a typographic nicety created for printed books which typically show many more lines per page than do six-inch E Ink devices, when used with default settings.
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Speaking of scene breaks that use blank space, if you use margin-top: 2em; for the blank space, it can get lost at the bottom and/or top of the screen with RMSDK (ADE). What does work is padding-top: 2em; as that allows the space to show should it be at the bottom/top of the page.
And I agree that windows and orphans can confuse things. I think Readers should have windows and orphans defaulting to 1. One thing I don't get though is why in some eBooks that windows & orphans of 2 is put in the CSS.