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Originally Posted by JMikeD
I used to see plenty of books on the Kindle that had half-a-dozen spaces between some words in order to force right justification. Now they limit the number of spaces (it's two, I believe) and as a consequence, you end up with lines that are not fully justified. The situation could be minimized, if not eliminated if the Kindle rendering engine allowed hyphenation, but it doesn't.
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So they change the behaviour at some point ? Interesting, I wonder why they would do that. It would be nice to have hyphenation (is there a reader that do that), but I guess it's rather complicated, and the rules would depend on the language of the book I guess, which would imply weird things if the language meta-date of the book is not correct.
After several more days of use I would add the following points :
7 - A subscription to a periodical can't be share between several devices. Now I don't know if it's due to the Publishers or Amazon (I would guess it's due to the Publishers), but for the consumer, it sucks !
8 - When I read a Newspaper, and I'm reading an article which ends on the current page, with another article starting right after, the next article is considered to be the first to be not at all displayed on the current page. Which means you can't read articles one after another by just clicking on the right of the D Pad. I guess this behaviour is deliberate, and of course you can just go to next page each time, but I would prefer next article to point to the beginning of the first title of the current page after the title on top.
Overall, again I like the device very much, it's very convenient and these are mostly, like the title says minor complaints that doesn't alter the enjoyment of using the device. What is very less enjoyable, and it's not particularly directed to Amazon but to the whole "protection" system, is that I realize more and more that these devices allow you more to access content that to actually possess it, and I guess it will go more and more in that direction. A paper book, can be easily lent, sold or given to someone ! Same thing with a newspaper, after I read it, I can give it to someone, but not on an eReader. I can't even share that newspageper between my own eReaders. On top of that, in France the eBooks / newspapers coming from the big publishers are almost as expensive as the printed ones, which makes the whole experience even less pleasing.
Of course there are advantages like the convenience of holding the device compared to a printed book, the ease and speed of using dictionary, the lighted cover which makes it easy to read in the dark, the automatic reception of newspapers. But sometimes I feel tempted to boycott this silly protection system and return to printed medias.