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Originally Posted by Jaden
Like I wrote: epub hyphenation: correct, but always happens (ragged or justified)
kepub hyphenation: only when justified, often incorrect...
So it differes from epub to kepub...
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It also differs depending on what font you are using (seriously) and the size of the font.
The book I tested on is a drm free ePUB of In the Garden of Beasts by Eric Larson. I tested with a right ragged edge. Someone else might want to test justified text.
I used the same size font throughout, a small for me, medium for younger eyes. It was 7 ticks to the right on the size slider.
Georgia, Chapter 1, first page: 4 hyphens
Georgia, Chapter 1, next page: 10 hyphens
Delima, Chapter 1, first page: 1 hyphen
Delima, Chapter 1, next page: 5 hyphens
Amasis, Chapter 1, first page: 6 hyphens
Amasis, Chapter 1, next page: 1 hyphens
Then I went 2 clicks larger. You would expect fewer hyphens as there are fewer lines. But since more hyphens per page seems to translate into less reading pleasure, I thought it was worth seeing this.
Georgia, Chapter 1, first page: 2 hyphens
Georgia, Chapter 1, next page: 1 hyphens
Delima, Chapter 1, first page: 2 hyphen
Delima, Chapter 1, next page: 0 hyphens
Amasis, Chapter 1, first page: 8 hyphens
Amasis, Chapter 1, next page: 1 hyphens
The results vary enough that it might explain why the hyphenation drives some folks crazy and doesn't seem to matter much to other people. Also note that Amasis actually went up when the text got larger--I don't necessarily think it means much. A larger test would tell us more.
What is the biggie to me is that font choice and size do matter and playing with fonts might be worth doing until the fix comes down if you are going to read ePUBs.