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Originally Posted by DaleDe
Actually Kerning and other such features is, IMHO, the thing that makes full justification reasonable. Without this balance I prefer left justified text. All the extra spaces between words just to justify detracts from the looks of the page and gets in the way of the reading. Hopefully high typographic quality will become a priority in some future eBook readers. There is no reason it should be the sole domain of PDF. I hate the spacing rivers that appear in fully justified text.
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That's right. But it's also a problem of paragraph-breaking algorithms being usually too simplistic (just fill each line as much as possible, then break). Indeed, there is no reason why a reader (software) could not use something more sophisticate, like TeX's algorithm (try to find the combination of linebreaks that give the "best" result), only it's more computationally demanding. I hope in the future e-book reading software will provide better quality and e-book formats more flexibility (maybe ePub?).
But anyway, I just wanted to say PDF is not necessarily the devil (though I guess, for downloaded content, it often is).