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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I have an issue here with the text indent being 5%. That's 5% of the screen. So on different devices, you get different indents. On a Kindle DX, or the 10" Kindle Fire, you get rather overly large indents. It's bets to specify the indent in em. I use 1.2em and that works well and does not change based on the screen size.
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I appreciate your comment, Jon. I have a 10.1" Android tablet with the Kindle app, and I think 5% indent looks great (it isn't a large indent at all!). I like the way it looks on smaller devices, too. My e-books have always had that and
Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines still supports percentage indents, so I'll probably leave it that way
for now, but I will definitely try 1.2em in the future to see how much of a difference it makes.
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Personally, I like the 03/09/2015 version better. Even if the font weight was the same, I prefer the hyphens. Since getting the Kobo Aura H2O with has hyphenation support, I rarely see whide gaps in lines and the H2O does not go crazy hyphenating. The worst Reader is the B&B nook STR and later Readers as they really do go crazy.
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I think
a lot of readers would agree with you. Personally, I don't mind auto-hyphenation if it's handled well, but depending on the font (and text size), it can get excessive. For example, it often hyphenates after just two letters, hyphenates proper names, and hyphenates already-hyphenated compound words. I have not observed this in my own e-books (thankfully!), but in some auto-hyphenated Kindle e-books I've seen, it just breaks the word in the WRONG place--not even between syllables.
Here is an example from one of my e-books that I posted at the beginning of this thread so you can see what I'm talking about with the excessive two-letter hyphenation:
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I think that's ugly! Also, some readers absolutely HATE auto-hyphenation, to the point where they will complain to Amazon about it. Then the author receives a "quality control" notice from KDP, who may withdraw the book from sale. Readers aren't used to seeing auto-hyphenation in Kindle books; many will assume that the author/publisher made those bad hyphenation choices.
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Usually there is some way to tell the rendering program not to hyphenate. This is a bunch of different commands you can use to try to turn off hyphenation if that's what you want.
Code:
body {
-epub-hyphens: none;
adobe-hyphenate: none;
-webkit-hyphens: none;
-moz-hyphens: none;
hyphens: none;
}
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Yes, I posted regarding that earlier. This code does work to suppress auto-hyphenation in Kindle books:
body
{-webkit-hyphens:none;
hyphens:none;}
I tested that and wasn't happy with the results. It produced a lot of ragged-right lines, very obvious on the first page of the tested e-book.
