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Originally Posted by eGeezer
I have found that a quick "find and replace" of all paragraph marks (carriage returns) with spaces, followed by a "find and replace" of all periods (.) with period-paragraph-paragraph pretty much cleans up a txt file.
Although it doesn't retain the intended original paragraphing, it certainly makes it more readable, especially on a 5" reader. Naturally, I then have to go thru and restructure the Chapter headers, since they seldom end with (.).
But its not like I am doing this for every book I read.
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Do you mean that you make each sentence into a paragraph? How strange. I would find it very disturbing.
I once tried to read a book whose author had decided
he was the one who got to decide where the line breaks should be, instead of just letting the text flow naturally (which he didn't feel was natural at all of course, and I guess he's entitled to his opinion but I found out I rather strongly disagree). The whole text was centered, with line breaks every 5 to 10 words, including in the middle of sentences. A bit like a poem, except that it wasn't poetic, merely infuriating. That book ended up in the (virtual) waste bin rather fast
