Thread: AZW3 justified - ragged right
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Old 02-10-2019, 12:37 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
The default for KF8 (azw3) is justified text. For KFX format the reader can select either justified or left aligned (ragged right).

You can force align left using css/styles, but that is discouraged by the Amazon Kindle Publishing Guidelines...

I took a look at the free sample of the book you mentioned and the css stylesheet has the following:

So definitely forced left aligned.
Thanks.

In this case, I think the author has a legitimate reason to publish the book ragged right. It is unfortunate that this can not be overridden, even when the book is in KFX. I suspect that this is laziness on Amazon's part since they make provisions to override publisher fonts. Overriding alignment must be easier. They really should have three page options, book default, justified, and left aligned, and provide that for both KF8 and KFX. (Of course, if the book specified alignment varies with section or paragraph, user specified forced alignment might give strange results.
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