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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
Because it IS aggravating to some readers. Myself included. "Amateurish typography" is simply not an objective thing that's agreed upon by everyone. Opinions abound. That's why things like justification, hyphenization, base font size, and linespacing (for regular body text) should be left up to the people that ultimately have to look at it.
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It's a nice sentiment, but what I've seen over and over is that people are conditioned to favor poor typography because that's what they're used to nowadays. So, principles of good typography that were developed over centuries have been discarded in favor of the preferences of engineers raised on Microsoft Word. I don't think anyone with a grounding in book typography would see the Kindle's typography as any better than a necessary evil.
Still, I wouldn't object to reader control if that's actually what we were offered. But if it's a choice between Amazon's dictating the typography or me, I won't willingly leave it in the hands of people who have proven themselves clueless.
Aaron