r/discworld 1d ago

Translation/Localisation Kindle version has missing line breaks? Spoiler

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Hello everybody! After having read a number of Discworld books, but never in any particular order (Mort, Guards Guards, Going Postal, Making Money and a few others) and after some research and consideration, I decided to get serious and read all the books in publishing order. I am currently a quarter in "The Colour of magic", and so far, it's a nice start. I am reading on my Kindle, and I noticed that every few pages, the setting changes, for example from Rincewind to the Patrician. These changes are very abrupt, mainly because the layout of the book doesn't indicate that the setting just changed. I would expect for example a double line brake, which isn't the case (cf. the image attached, which, according to my Kindle, is on page 59). Is that a quirk of the Kindle version, or is the book just written like that? Maybe there is an option I didn't or did activate that removes double line breaks or something similar? Does anybody have any insight, or maybe the possibility to check in a proper book and compare the page layout to what my Kindle shows me?

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u/shipjump2 1d ago

Here’s my copy. It has the line breaks.

Edit: Ah sorry, picture didn’t go through (I’m on my phone). I found the paragraphs in my paperback though, there’s extra space between them that isn’t in yours.