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About the soft hyphen character sequence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_hyphen

Questions:

1. Should I use the soft hyphen character sequence?
2. If so, what should be the minimum word size that I should hyphenate?
   I think 12 and greater. I only have about 550 words in my whole novel that are of length 12 or greater. So it won't affect the size noticably.

Why am I asking? Here are the details:

I have an eBook published in most places: (Kindle, Nook, iBook, Kobo, etc.)

I was reading a book on Kindle and found a line that just ended early despite the fact that everything is justified. I checked my own novel and sure enough I found an instance of this (well multiple instances actually), but it depends on the font size.

Here is an example from my novel:

As  if  the  memory  were  my
own, the first time her
grandfather gifted her flashed
through my mind.

So the second line ends early.

Then only way I can find to fix this is to use the soft hyphen. I have tested the soft hyphen and it works on my Kindle app on my PC, my Galaxy S4 phone, and my Kindle Fire HDs.

PHP Code:

­* 


Note sure why this forum adds the extra "*". I know the soft hyphen doesn't have a "*".

So if I change the word grandfather to have the soft hyphen, this is fixed on Kindle.

PHP Code:

grand*­father 


To me, it won't make my novel more