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Originally Posted by cybmole
have they sneaked in hyphenation to the native book reader app.
I am reading the tube riders vol 1 - a £zero amazon kindle "purchase" - seeing lots of hyphens at line ends. they are not hard coded because if I rotate the fire to landscape view then I see different words hyphenated. I have never seen this in a mobi/azw on kindle fire before and I see nothing in read options to control whether I get it or not. I don't much care for having it forced on me.
I had always believed that kindle did not/could not "do" hyphenation but this is a counter example ?
( same book in K for PC flows with no hyphens)
could others check & report back. it could be just this one book but I can't figure how in-book code could control this ?
I have KF HDX 9.7 latst upgrade.
(PS if I convert the book to epub and try another app, it flows just like any other book, which suggest it is an OS/kindle app change not something in the book )
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Did you mean the Fire HDX
8.9 or another model?
The sample is currently not available for
The Tube Riders (The Tube Riders Trilogy #1) (a glitch that's affected one of my own books during the publishing process each of the last four days, which I've reported to Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing several times). When the sample is available again, I'll download it and check on my Fire HD6.
EDIT: I just re-read your post and noticed that the book is free, so I purchased it and checked on my Fire HD6. There
is auto-hyphenation there! Text with Bookerly font selected may be a bit darker than usual, too. I see that the book was originally published in January 2014, but the author may have made changes recently and re-uploaded the book.
I'm currently working with KDP's Technical Team to try and figure out what's going on with auto-hyphenation. I recently revised my four e-books. After uploading them to KDP within the last week or two, auto-hyphenation is appearing in my ebooks where there wasn't any before. The text is darker than it was in previous editions, too. This has happened on the Fire HD6 with both software version 4.5.2 and the new 4.5.3 (edit: and now the Fire HDX 8.9). It
isn't a problem on older HD7's, the Voyage, or the Kindle for Android app on my tablet. I don't have any other KF8-reading devices or iOS app to test, so I'm not sure about those yet.
I would greatly appreciate if you would download the sample for
Last Mulligan and report your results in this MR thread, where the issue's being discussed:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=256131. I need to know exactly which devices are showing the auto-hyphenation! I'm not seeing this on my Fire HD6 in other recently published/re-published e-books, so if anyone sees other examples of auto-hyphenation, I'd very much appreciate knowing the title so I can check it out.