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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Use the Kobo Touch Extended driver. You can enable hyphenation there. (I think it adds some CSS to make the rendering engine hyphenate words, but it doesn't work for all languages. It depends on the language set in the book, and the available hyphenation dictionaries on the device.)
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Thanks for the tip, it worked beautifully - now I get hyphenation in sideloaded epubs, something that never really worked on the kindle!
As for reading speed, I agree that a larger page makes for a more relaxed reading experience, less page turns, etc. But there are those studies which discuss the length of a line of text. I believe the results were that longer lines make reading more tedious because the brain "stack" has to keep more info (I don't recall where I read that). This is one of the reasons why newspapers have narrow long columns of text instead of just plastering full length lines along the whole pages.
The above is the reason why I think the KA1 would be perfect for a two column display in portrait mode (enter koreader). I'm yet to try it and I'm not sure how well it will work with the KA1, especially regarding the comfort light. My hunch is that the latter won't work with koreader at all. I'll report once I've tried it.