Valerie in Nature

I've come across a very annoying design choice in FBReader. Since people have been complaining about it for over a decade, I'm sure it is a choice and not a bug. When FBReader encounters the <hr /> element in an EPUB, it ignores it entirely. Since this is a very common, and I would argue very correct, way to show a break a bit more than a new paragraph and a bit less than a new chapter, this seems like a bad design choice. However, apparently they're not even the only ones. You could try to fix it by using some <p>&nbsp;</p> instead. This is another common way that ebook creators have used to show section breaks. It mimics the printer solution where everything is formatting and nothing is meaning. However, meaning is now possible and even considered desirable. Also, some ebook readers like to ignore this one as empty space, too. The fact that &nbsp; is explicitly not meant to be treated as empty space is beside the point, apparently. I found one q...

Better known as "Starr King", he's got a mountain named for him and there's a statue in Golden Gate Park and there used to be one in Washington DC except someone declared they had no idea who he was. Rather than fix that ignorance, they demoted him. Also, my own "nursery school" was named for him: Starr King Parent-Child Workshop. Well, I didn't know who he was either, so I decided to fix that ignorance, at least a little. He was a Universalist, then a Unitarian minister with a slight stature and a booming voice that was quite desired on the lecture circuit, it seems. He had much to say about morality and spirituality and tolerance and staying off the drink. He also traveled from time to time and would write about that, mostly as series of newspaper articles. He moved from the east coast to San Francisco shortly before the Civil War and as an abolitionist, had much to say about that too. He is credited with "preserving California for the Union"...