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Originally Posted by nomesque
I started a thread on this on KindleBoards, and thought it'd be interesting to get opinions from a wider audience 
I've heard a number of people comment on the fact that Smashwords ebooks, for example, don't include a page break before a new chapter. Fair enough, I thought, makes sense for people to want each chapter to start on a new page. Then I got my PRS-300, and started reading ebooks with page breaks done correctly, and discovered - much to my surprise - that I HATE them. Passionately. Especially (although this might be caused by dodgy formatting) when I get two lines of text, click to next page, get a BLANK page, click again and get a chapter name and FIVE! lines of text. GAH! It's like eating a sandwich in teensy tiny bits!
So, you've got my opinion now, but I'm interested in hearing yours - what do you prefer? Page break before each chapter, no page breaks, or you really don't care? |
What you are describing is poor formatting. A well done eBook will have proper page breaks at the beginning of each chapter. I prefer the chapter title to be in a noticeably larger font size then the body font. But, I'd like to have the chapter header to be close to the top of the screen. Then I get room for more of the body. The next pages until the next chapter will all be normal. Sometimes you do get like "Part One..." on a separate page. That I do not mind either.
One problem you will run into if you have no page breaks is that in ePub you probably will not conform to the mobile ADE standard and thus, a lot of people won't be able to view your eBook. And if they are all like that, your sales will drop to almost nothing.
Take a look at the ePub of
For the Win https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=83384 and you will see proper page breaks and proper italics too.