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Old 04-28-2016, 03:59 AM   #92
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The problem here is that not even .kfx books do whole-paragraph greyness optimization (as, say, TeX does), and the first, second, and third lines have no hyphenatable words, so there's nothing the Kindle can do.
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What word would you hyphenate?
un·con·scious
The on-line version of merriam-webster says it is hyphenated this way.
If you hyphenated it un-conscious between the first ans second line of text you might get much better typographical grey. There is no way to find out just to do it and assess the typographical grey of the whole paragraph.

As the previous poster said, and as I have been complaining for years, a 486 era computer could do this in LaTeX or inDesign or in other good desktop publishing tools. A humble e-ink reader nowadays has vastly more processing power, RAM, ...

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I also noticed that she was not on the default font but a larger font.
Can someone please screenshot the default or smaller font?
So am I supposed to read with a thick glasses?
Even the font that is used on the sample is a bit small for my taste (and eyesight).
Being able to select smaller margins or left justification might produce a bit better result, but such advanced features are not available on a premium e-ink reader from Amazon.
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