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Originally Posted by simonroyle
For Kindle go with fully justified, and watch out for the BIG spaces.
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But that's not how Kindle handles "BIG" spaces. Since the Kindle doesn't hyphenate (the merits of which, and the implementation of, would take another much longer thread), if the word spaces reach a certain point (two spaces?) it dumps all the extra space at the end of the line.
To a former professional typographer like myself, it ought to have us pulling our hair out. But, you know, the Kindle (and e-readers as a class) are not print on the page and virtually every typographic rule doesn't apply with ePub or mobi because there is no ability to define anything that matters to a typographer.
I much prefer full justification -- even on Kindle's terms -- to ragged right once you reach the number of letters per line the typical Kindle "page" delivers -- approximately the same as a pulp paperback. It's one of the annoyances I suffer with many ePubs for Kobo (although some titles come out fully justified so it's not the Kobo environment per se).