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Originally Posted by CyberPaul
I'm increasingly disliking Amazon and Kindle... They are strongly discouraging the ebooks bought elsewhere. Covers, page flip, improvements for manga, enhanced typesettings and even something so basic like the simple hyphenation are available only for books bought from Amazon!
They not even allow anymore to change the title when we send ebooks to Kindle!
I'm seriously thinking to abandon them...  |
Actually you can hyphenate ebooks fine, as long as you convert them to AZW3: use ­ hyphens (discretionary). (You can also use zero-width spaces to split things like URLs at line ends without disrupting them if not split). There is a Calibre plugin to do it, but for a lot of stuff these days I just use a tiny Perl script I wrote based on XML::Twig and TeX::Hyphen, then kindlegen the result.
None of this works in non-AZW3 MOBI, which means periodicals remain unhyphenatable to this day: if you Calibre-convert them, you can left-justify them instead, which makes them readable again, but with periodicals purchased from Amazon you are doomed to full justification with horrible intermittently jagged right borders.