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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
Breaks between paragraphs also pull me right out of a book. My most recent example of this was because, IMO, the writer/publisher wanted to double the page count of the book. When I read for 15 minutes and was at the 40% mark, I realized what was going on, and I stopped reading. It was like mentally hitting a brick wall after every 2 sentences.
A "river" running through the page barely registers with me, but those large gaps appearing 2-3 times on one page just ruins the book for me. Sometimes, if it's a book I really want to read, I'll try to fix it in Calibre. But my editing skills aren't great, and for the book in question it wasn't worth the bother.
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I don't mind a small gap between paragraphs if indentation is not used to indicate a new paragraph but your sample has gone well past small. Looking at that sample, I would pull out an editor and start modifying the paragraph styles. On the bright side, they didn't compound their formatting sins by indenting as well.