10 Common mistakes in book production

10 Common mistakes in book production - Jan Tschichold

- 'books have to be handy' 
To a certain extent I would agree with this. If a book is difficult to hold, read and navigate then the reader will be put off and the book will not be successful. On the other hand, making a book more difficult in terms of the way you hold it may be part of the design and your experience. 

- 'Inarticulate and shapeless typesetting as a consequence of suppressing indents.' 
This means that each paragraph should be m indented with no line break. This is a rule that I disagree with. If you open a book and see a large body of text with no line breaks in it can be daunting and would disencourage you to read the content. This can prove an unsuccessful rule in this sense. 

- 'Opening pages without any initial, pages that begin bluntly in the upper left-hand corner and look like any other random page of text. One thinks he is seeing some- thing other than a beginning. The opening of a chapter must be marked by a wide blank space above the initial line, by an initial letter or by something distinctive.'
This is also something that I would agree with. If you turn a page to a new chapter then this needs to be clear to the reader. If there is no title to the chapter separated by which space before the text then it will not be clear to the reader that they are reading a new chapter therefore a misunderstanding may be made. 

- White, and even stark white, paper. Highly unpleasant for the eyes and an offence against the health of the population. Slight toning (ivory and darker, but never crème), never obtrusive, is usually best.
This is another rule that I would agree with. When you're looking at a book that has been produced with a high quality gloss white paper, the light bounces off the paper and makes it difficult to read due to the lighting.