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Originally Posted by mitford13
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Two quotes I found interesting from the first article:
“If you’re reading along and there’s a typo, it ruins the mood,” he added. “It’s not just typos. Spacing between paragraphs or sections is very important to my rhythm, and the spaces were so insignificant in the old e-books that they didn’t stop you. I wanted the space to stop the reader, that’s why I put it there.”
I hadn't though seriously about spacing between paragraphs as being large enough to stop the reader. I tend to consider large spaces annoying and make them smaller (but I don't remove the "***" or whatever between paragraphs). Also, after a break, paragraphs tend to be flush left rather than indented, which helps one notice the "pause".
I don't believe the larger space causes me to slow down and think more than shorter spaces.
Typos do disrupt my reading rhythm.
"The entire manuscript had to be retyped — a process that was outsourced to a word processing vendor in Chennai, India. Then the new digital text had to be proofread against the print edition to make sure no errors had been introduced."
That would make ebook conversion much more expensive. I wonder when books started to be submitted digitally rather than on paper (realizing even in the digital age some authors likely prefer paper).
Apologies if this is off topic.