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Originally Posted by mattmc
I don't think that Amazon is likely to "abandon" users, but that's not what I was saying. In the past, Amazon issued firmware updates to everything but (correct me if I'm wrong) the K1, K2, and DX, to make them able to read KF8. I don't know what's stopping them from doing that again, but for KFX. An almost-all-KFX scene could be right around the corner, as fast as Amazon's firmware teams can work.
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This seems very unlikely to me. Even if at some point they switch over to KFX for new books, I expect that they will retain the existing older formats for current books. (Also, there are already books that work on some devices and not others. KFX-only books would just be an extension of that.)
I highly doubt they would put any resources into firmware upgrades for outdated models. If anything, when the time comes, they could offer an attractive trade-in or sale on the lowest-end current model to promote upgrades.
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Originally Posted by mattmc
@kovid, On the soft hyphens, maybe you can clear something up for me. What benefit would there be to adding those to the file itself? What if the user sets a font size that doesn't give a word a reason to break on a particular line? Then you just have a hyphen in the middle of a word...unless the rendering engine is hiding them when they're not necessary, or something, and then you haven't gained anything. I suppose they could be inserting invisible markers in the middle of words that the rendering engine uses as clues to do soft-hyphenation.
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See the
Wikipedia page for more information on soft hyphens:
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In this context, the soft hyphen may also be called a discretionary hyphen or optional hyphen. It serves as an invisible marker used to specify a place in text where a hyphenated break is allowed without forcing a line break in an inconvenient place if the text is re-flowed. It becomes visible only after word wrapping at the end of a line. The soft hyphen's Unicode semantics and HTML implementation are in many ways similar to Unicode's zero-width space.
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