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Originally Posted by rhyous
I was reading a book on Kindle and found a line that just ended early despite the fact that everything is justified.
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This is just normal behavior. I don't think I've ever read a Kindle book that didn't contain one or more short lines.
It results from a 2012 (perhaps early 2013) change in the Kindle conversion, in an effort to get rid of extra-wide gaps between words when 100% justification is forced.
More recently (I can't really date these changes, but can only go by when I noticed them) the Kindle conversion will break a line following a hyphenation. Formerly that wasn't the case, and I developed the habit of getting rid of hyphens whenever that wouldn't cause rank confusion. I think the same thing is now true of em dashes. Again, I had developed the practice of using British style, that of using a space followed by an en dash followed by another space. I think this is now unnecessary.