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Originally Posted by barryem
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So are you proposing that Amazon, in it's advertising, seek out every negative metaphor and warn people about it? Do you warn a potential boss during an interview that at times you're lazy and lackadaisical?
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Barry
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I have even worse defects than that.
I do not expect any company to make truthful (negative) advertising. It will never happen by their own will. That's why it's important, for us users, to speak about "omissions" because they never do it.
There are plenty of them, not only the jail thing, which is the only one really important for me.
For example: (omissions are between brackets)
- updates (forced on you like food on a "foie gras" duck)
- wonderful new file format (secret and undocumented)
- buying books (limitations of rights)
- fonts: look our nice new Bookerly font (but we forbid you to side-load yours)
- crisp typeface (but we do not provide any 'advanced" boldening of the font)
- hyphenation, now coming with kfx with brand new typesetting features (on topic
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Hyphenation on Kindle
Well, now I am back on track and I will ask a question to experienced Kindle users who enjoy hyphenation (I have been told there may be one, but maybe he is not reading this because he (she) uses a foreign language).
I know one way to implement it, but it's surely is not the majority use case: I convert one EPUB (DRM free and public domain) in AZW3, I add hyphenation with Calibre with the plugin "hyphenate this".
For people who buy directly to Amazon.
- if it's a book in KFX, I understand they may have automatic hyphenation? Is it true for all languages? Can they select the language for hyphenation (there are distinct rules)? Probably it applies specifically for each KFX book according to its language?
- if the book is in AZW3 or MOBI, furthermore with DRM. Is it possible to export it to Calibre to do the above changes? Is there a better way? Can they convert them to KFX?
- if there is no better solution, then I understand why the majority makes do without hyphenation (at least for English language books which are not so strongly impacted by the lack of hyphenation as other languages).
Quality of hyphenation
As far as the quality of hyphenation is concerned, Koreader does a reasonable work. There may probably be quality differences between languages. What I can say for French is that it's good enough to read without trouble.
There are different formats for hyphenation files. I use with LibreOffice a different kind of file (presumably better) than the one I find with Koreader. Prince PDF uses another (proprietary one?) which is even more strict - I mean which provides more hyphens. I do not know how to convert or edit these hyphenation files.