Thread: Kobo, Kindle, KOReader and hyphenation
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Old 01-05-2016, 06:53 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by roger64 View Post
To conclude with hyphenation (unless you have any question).

- Koreader allows you to hyphen or not the book you are reading. You can select your own language for hyphenation (among about thirty... but without the Dutch). Of course, you can select a permament setting for one language and all your books will be automatically hyphenated this way.

- To hyphen your azw3 books, you need to perform a voluntary step, for example using a Calibre plugin named "Hyphenate this". It's the same as a conversion process because it has to be repeated for each book, which explains why few people seem to bother to do it. However, I believe it would be markedly different if the only thing readers had to do was just to select a permanent hyphenation choice "à la Koreader".

For your enjoyment, I tried to provide you with a fair example in English with a six inch format EPUB. I took the screenshots with Koreader on Kobo Glo but I guess the results would not have been that different on a PW3 with an azw3.

I chose an average page of text (not too long paragraphs, about 20 lines). You can note two hyphens (if you extrapolate, it's 10% of the page display). On the page without any hyphenation, I underlined in red what you call "gaping holes". Too nice.

So, 2 hyphens a page, 600 hyphens a book, 1 200 000 hyphens for 2 000 books... How many polysyllabic words and gaping holes in your happy readers's life... I believe you when you tell us that you neglected this myriad of defects but not when you say you did not notice any of them...

But now, Amazon changed its mind. It decided to provide hyphenation with the kfx format. I am sure that future readers of this format will enjoy this brand new and still secret technology, as much as the readers of "Les Liaisons dangereuses" did in 1782.
I don't see any "gaping holes" in the lines you have underlined. For me, I JUST DON'T CARE. As long as I can change the font size to one that is comfortable for my eyes and change the font style to sans serif, I'm happy. I will even read in a non-optimal size/style, but I can't read for as long as I'd like to, because the words start swimming after a while.

You are not the world, and the world is not you. The main reason that e-book readers are so wonderful is that almost all reading preferences can be accommodated. Please stop assuming that what is important to you is important to everyone.

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