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... I also have Kindle for Mac to get some idea of how the Mobi's will look on the Kindle. ...
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The various "Kindle 4 ..." apps are generally poor choices for previewing the appearance on a Kindle device. You should use Kindle Previewer instead:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000234621
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...I have been using Apple's Pages to convert documents to ePubs...
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What format are the source "documents"? The problems probably starts with Pages' conversion or in the creation of the "document" that you are feeding to Pages.
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On the Kindle, the resulting Mobi files are very messy, with words breaking up at the end of lines (I don't think Kindle "does" hyphens) and continuing on the next line.
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The Kindle does hyphens just fine. What it doesn't do is hyphenization, a totally different animal. The Kindle never breaks words, inserting a hyphen or not, at the end of a line. It will always move the whole word to the next line. If the lines are broken mid word, the break is created before conversion to MOBI.
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I have a lot of public domain documents that I would like to have on my Kindle and to share, but they are too messy at this point.
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If these are PDF format, there is absolutely no possible simple fix. Fixes may be possible, but they won't be simple to figure out and the fix for one document won't likely work with most others. Each may have to have its own method.