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Originally Posted by dordale
It seems silly to me to limit alignment choices to books purchased from the Kindle store with "Enhanced Typesetting". I'm not a programmer, but it seems like this would be a feature that could easily be applied to all books including sideloaded books. Both of my Kobos have been able to do this for years.
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Easy is relative. The kindle has separate e-book rendering software for the MOBI, KF8 and KFX formats. At this point KFX is (I assume) the majority format for e-book delivery by Amazon. It is under active development so the programmers are currently familiar with that software. So adding new features to KFX is easiest and gives the best return for the cost of development.
The rendering software for the other formats hasn't been touched in years. It would be more costly in development resources to make the change also apply to those formats with less to be gained. It is likely that they want to use their resources on developing even more KFX features instead.