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Originally Posted by HarryT
To clarify, if a book does not specify its justification, the Kindle will display it fully justified. If, however, it specifically specifies left justification in its CSS, that will be honoured.
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Thanks for that additional info. I may try fiddling around with CSS settings for the book I am having problems with, Spartan Gold. But other than this one example I've found so far, other books look good fully justified and I'm fine with how my PW3 is displaying them. As I read more of Spartan Gold on the PW3 last night, either I am getting more used to the full justification, or it is only causing ugly displays in some parts of the book and not others.
But IMHO, justification should be a user setting, not a publisher setting. Sure, the publisher should be able to specify a default, but the user should always be able to change that dynamically, without having to resort to manually editing the CSS data and/or running a format conversion. Even if done with Calibre, where these edits would be simple, this is really beyond what customers should be required to do. It's weird that the Kindle software lets you dynamically change everything else about a book (except justification in KF8) - font face, font size, margins, line spacing, etc. Why they picked on justification is a mystery. Full justification takes more sophisticated computer algorithms than left justification, so you'd think if anything, the Kindle would have defaulted to the simpler case of left justified.
Based on jhowell's comments, I'm thinking Amazon eventually realized this flaw in their implementation of KF8 format and added the ability for on-the-fly justification changes to KFX.
I'm starting to think of Amazon's proprietary eBook formats a bit like I think of Microsoft Windows. Yeah, Windows works. But it's a real complicated and convoluted mess under the hood compared to other operating systems. My opinion right now (subject to change as I learn more) is that ePub is more like Linux, and KF8/KFX is more like Windows in regards to complexity/convoluted-ness.