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Originally Posted by roger64
Of course I am not the world. But I am just here because of some hasty statements of this kind above. How can people be so mistaken? To "go by the majority" here makes absolutely no sense (the whole statement in fact makes no sense).
There is no Gulf Stream divide between lovers and haters of typography. Users are the same on each platform (Kindle, Kobo, etc.). They look for the most easy or convenient solution provided by their platform.
As it happens, most EPUB users seem to use hyphenation, most Kindle users don't.
Why? EPUB users have automatic hyphenation and use it even if they do not care any more about typography than Kindle users. And Kindle users don't use hyphenation because it's not automatically provided to them.
If Kindle provided automatic hyphenation to its users, I bet that 98% would use it - without thinking about it. There is no need to make hasty and earth-shattering statements of this kind, it's just a matter of ease of use of certain feature.  |
While justification and auto hyphenation makes displayed text look pretty, it makes reading harder/slower for me. I much prefer a jagged right margin and no auto hyphenation. Spacing between words is uniform and I don't have to scan all the way to the right margin on every line of text.
I understand why publishers would like justification and auto hyphenation for printed books as it makes printed pages look more uniform and attractive. I couldn't care less how the dynamically displayed pages on an ereader look. I want the layout styled in a way that increases my reading speed.