Thread: Kindle 3 gripes
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Old 09-06-2010, 12:51 PM   #127
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Originally Posted by Ben Thornton View Post

My only other gripe isn't really (mostly) Amazon's fault - it's the old gripe about sloppy formatting from publishers. The justification is also patchy (which is their fault) - a long word leaves a ragged right rather than increasing the kerning within the words.
I believe the first release of the 2.5 update forced justification by allowing space between words to grow as much as necessary, but it reverted to the current behavior after that. Given that neither mode involved any kerning, that was probably the right decision.

Both Condensed and Sans Serif are better in this respect, since they can fit more words per line, so the space-between-words technique is more likely to result in a fully justified line of text. And landscape is better still since the lines can be longer.

But if they could add some kerning as well it would be helpful, even if it meant page turn is .01s slower.

Full justification at larger text sizes is never going to look very good, since the lines are not long enough.
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