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I'm not a Kindle user, but I was surprised (shocked, dismayed) to see a full-page Kindle advert on the back cover of the Radio Times (a high profile weekly magazine in the UK) that displayed a page from 'Ordinary Thunderstorms', where the em-dash, or even the shorter en-dash, has been superceded by a hyphen. At first I thought 'river-all' was some obscure feature of a river, until, in the same sentence, I came to 'no doubt-but let's wait'. The next paragraph starts with, 'There he is-look-stepping hesitantly down from a taxi'.
I found this so distracting, I couldn't read on - even though it was only a single-page advert. There is no way that I would buy a Kindle if all their books are edited in this way.
Am I alone in finding this disturbing? Or is it common practice in e-readers, which regular customers accept without complaint?
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