Thread: Kobo, Kindle, KOReader and hyphenation
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Old 01-05-2016, 07:44 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by roger64 View Post
Why? EPUB users have automatic hyphenation and use it even if they do not care any more about typography than Kindle users. And Kindle users don't use hyphenation because it's not automatically provided to them.

If Kindle provided automatic hyphenation to its users, I bet that 98% would use it - without thinking about it. There is no need to make hasty statements of this kind, it's just a matter of ease of use of certain feature.
...and THIS is exactly what I was talking about. The vast majority of people just don't care about hyphenation. If they did, they would all be using formats that support it.

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