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Originally Posted by Hitch
Sure, but that isn't actually formatting. That's the author either blithely ignoring all normal standards, or being one of those people that's adamantly supporting blog-style formatting, etc. It's not like...choosing to use the enter key, (empty paragraphs) instead of margin, to create space between a heading and body text. I realize that's a fine distinction and perhaps, a distinction without a difference, but to me, the things we spoke about before were the differences between competent formatting, (top-margin instead of enter-enter-enter, for example), versus some gazoomba making a bad choice around his/her novel. See what I mean?
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I've seen some do a sort of inbetween a paragraph space and no paragraph space with a .3em space between paragraphs. I prefer without that, but I could put up with it. It's the full space plus the line space to make paragraph spaces even bigger then one line that's the worst. A full line is also not good. I find that when reading a book, the full line (or more) paragraph space can take me out of the book. Is that really the author's intention to let the reader be taken out of the story? I don't think so.
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You've mentioned this around the Martian previously and I don't necessarily disagree with you, but IIRC, you could turn those off on a Kindle, no?
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Yes you can. But then you do lose the correct formatting. For example, the mono font is used for something specific and if it's not there, it's not as easy to read. I do forget if the sans-serif is needed or not.
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Yabbt, that's from like, 2011-2012. They're not going to go back and fix those! :-)
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I have seen some older eBooks fixed, the code changed, or a completely new version.
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I would agree with that. I wish that they'd pay me to fix them all, but there you go. If wishes were horses....
Hitch
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I could also be paid to fix eBooks. I;d make a lot of money and I do think that a lot of people would like the way they looked.