Sorry for the off-topic post, but I want to correct some misinformation.
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Originally Posted by acabal
This is Kindle's much-vaunted "enhanced typography": instead of doing it the smart way with CSS hyphens on the firmware level, it seems they're instead planning on somehow adding soft hyphens to their entire ebook catalog... ugh.
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There was speculation that soft hyphens were being used for enhanced typesetting, but this turned out to be false.
Amazon's enhanced typesetting relies on a proprietary e-book format: KFX. Soft hyphens are not present in books using this format. Instead language-specific hyphenation dictionaries are used to add hyphens when text is rendered.
The KFX renderer has these dictionaries: dicts/hyph_de.bin, dicts/hyph_en.bin, dicts/hyph_es.bin, dicts/hyph_fr.bin, dicts/hyph_it.bin, dicts/hyph_nl.bin, dicts/hyph_pt.bin, dicts/hyph_ru.bin.