What is a good line spacing for paragraphs in a self-published book, and is half a line really too much?

Answer 1

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Half a line is about right. Compare to other books to see how others are formatted.

Answer 2

Look at text in books already published. 

Answer 3

Why don't you hit the space bar 57 times between each word and hit the carriage return 11 times between each line? Then you might have as many as 8 pages, or even 9, if you ever get that foreword completed. 

Answer 4

Blank spaces between lines of print a half a line in height is ridiculous spacing for a book. It will look amateurish and like you're padding, trying to make it look longer than it is.

If you don't have a bare minimum of 50,000 words (and plenty of people would say 65,000), you don't have an actual book-length manuscript no matter how big your margins and gutters, the size of your font, or the line spacing.