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Originally Posted by Buckaroo
I haven't read the entire 250-page thread, so this has almost certainly been brought up before, but just in case: There is a spot in Hell reserved for whoever decided that it is now an acceptable formatting convention to denote paragraph breaks with an empty line space rather than with an indent. I never, ever saw this before my reading became primarily e-books. Sure, I can change it in Calibre, but not without the risk of damaging other formatting within the book - i.e. section breaks that *also* use blank lines. And in any case, I shouldn't *have* to.
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That's a rather common screw-up. eBooks should not have paragraph spaces of a full line. I have seen some that use a .3em space between paragraphs and I still don't like them but I understand them as a middle-ground for some.
Another issue I see is the line-height. That should never be put in the main text.
There is a place in Hell for eBook designers who put in paragraph spaces and/or line-height as well as those that waste a really stupid amount of space with a chapter header.. Also that place is reserved for whoever decided that mode Kindle eBooks should use a 7% text indent. And those that use Vellum have their one special place. As well as though that embed fonts that don't work on eInk and in some cases not even on LCD or OLED. And we get those that decide to make the base font x-small or some stupidly small font size. And I'll end here with footnotes where the designer decides it's OK to make the touch point a microscopic size so we can easily miss it by not seeing it or depending on the prgbram being used, be unable able to tap on it. There are things to get eBooks designers in this special place but that's more then enough for now.