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Old 12-23-2014, 11:46 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer View Post
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.
Do people actually prefer huge gaps between words over hyphenation of the last word in the line? To me it just seems to throw off the balance and forces me out of the story. I can handle hyphenation of a word at the end without skipping a beat, but gaps annoy me.

Overdoing it on the hyphens though is probably not a good idea. Unless the word needs hyphenation, shouldn't it be left to the software to "flow" the text on the screen?
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