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Originally Posted by Hitch
I freely admit a serious preference for justified text (I feel that books published with ragged right look like a 5th-grader made them)--but each to their own. This is part of what I kvetched about earlier--this overwhelming need people seem to have to tailor every. single. thing. to their own preferences. FFS, we all managed to survive reading DT books, which have been justified for most of our lifetimes, without our girly bits or wedding tackle falling off. This endless whingeing about how text "has to be" ragged right or this or that...Christ. It seems like the more choices people are afforded now, the more inflexible they become.
That is certainly NOT true on Kindles, Turtle. FWIW.
Hitch
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Yes, pBooks are justified, hyphenated, have indents, and no paragraph spaces. Did anyone complain about that format before Readers were invented? The only complaints I've read of was the font was too small or the paper too thin. But it was never about the layout.
So if we get a similar formatted eBook, why are there now complaints? I complain when the format is lousy. But with pBooks, the format was not lousy. And we did have some L/R margins because of the spine. Now we don't need such margins because there is no spine.
So can we not complain when an eBook is formatted well enough and only complain when it's poorly formatted? Left justified is not enjoyable to read. Yes, I have read many eBooks left justified, but no more.