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Originally Posted by Atunah
This was posted also on KBoards by the author and when I got a sample on my kindle, I posted there how the hyphen words were hyphened again and messed with the flow on the kindle. It just looked weird and I can't even recall having seen hyphenated words at the end of lines in kindle books before. I may be dreaming this, but I have used a kindle since 2008. I hope I am making sense here. I am not talking about him using hyphenated words only, but the formatting on the kindle did a double hyphenation at end of line it never done on my kindles before.
So yeah, it was bad formatting.
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Kindles don't "do" hyphenation on the fly. Not with an internal algorithm anyway. That's why you often get large gaps between words; and at the end of some lines. Soft hyphens, however, will be rendered (at the end of lines) if they're included in the markup. If double-hyphens were appearing at the end of lines, I'm guessing there were soft hyphens used in combination with hard hyphens (and/or double soft hyphens).
Does anyone know if the Hyphenate This calibre plugin will/can (under certain circumstances) insert soft hyphens before or after the hard hyphens in compound words?
This sounds mostly like sour grapes after a book got pulled because of reader/consumer general formatting complaints. I've seen even "big" name authors have ebooks yanked after similar complaints. Fix it and resubmit it.