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The recent aquisition of PRS505 and exposure to ePUB format, triggered, inevitably, a quest for a “perfect CSS”, for a perfect font for my reader. The Net is choke full of sites dedicated to the fine art of typography and type setting.
From what I saw, there is no definite answer to the “paragraph spacing versus indentation” issue. It falls, as far as I understood, into the (artistic) freedom of the one who defines the layout of the text, the one who produces the e-book or web page.
There are pseudo-rules or suggestions, though. It is either indentation, or paragraph spacing, never both. If paragraph spacing is used, the CSS examples that I saw work with rather small values, between 0.1 and 0.3 em. If indentation is employed, the first paragraph of the section is not indented (and “adjacent sibling selectors” in CSS are a must, which works fine on ADE version on PRS505).
As for the personal preferences of the end consumers, it is, IMHO, the defiiciency of our reading platforms, if we can not override the font used in text, change the paragraph spacing, or outright replace the whole setup with our own CSS.
It is not the autors or type setters that should catter to our personal preferences, it is Adobe, Sony who owe us a decent reading software.
My 2 cents.
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