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Originally Posted by roger64
Of course I am not the world. But I am just here because of some hasty statements of this kind above. How can people be so mistaken? To "go by the majority" here makes absolutely no sense (the whole statement in fact makes no sense).
There is no Gulf Stream divide between lovers and haters of typography. Users are the same on each platform (Kindle, Kobo, etc.). They look for the most easy or convenient solution provided by their platform.
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You're talking about matters of taste, not fact. You obviously care a great deal about hyphenation and that's just fine. Many of us don't. Also fine.
I don't know how long you've been reading ebooks. Probably a while if my memory of your posts is about right. But many of us who don't care about hyphenation also have been reading a good while.
The very first books I read were in a program called Veritical Reader on an HP95lx. This was a pocket size MS-Dos computer with a 4.8"x1.8" display. It was held vertically for reading so the text was 1.8" wide. If I recall the very first version didn't even have word wrap. It was just mono-spaced letters from edge to edge. I read quite a few books that way and enjoyed them. A later version got word wrap and that was a big improvement.
Later I read on a Palm Pilot for years. This was a 3" screen and the books were mostly plain text converted to .pdb. There was no hyphenation in most readers and books. Some readers did support hyphenation and I used whichever reader was needed for the book I was reading. Hyphenation was never a consideration. I liked to be able to control text size and to scroll manually.
Now I read on a Kindle and with Moon+ and I'm pretty sure I get hyphenation with the Kindle these days, depending on the book I'm reading. I honestly can't tell you if I'm getting it on Moon+. I remember seeing it as an option but even though I read about 3 hours yesterday on it and an hour this morning, I don't recall if hyphenation is turned on.
The proper way for an ereader to behave is the way the person reading the book wants it to behave. There really isn't any other important criterium.
Barry