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Originally Posted by Argon
Is ragged right that much better? I keep flipping back and forth between the two options on my Kindle. Why ragged right when physical books are almost all justified?
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1) Physical books have higher resolution than eInk, and 2) they can always hyphenate words since a human can tell it where if the software can't figure it out. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong in my CSS but my Kobo never hyphenates with ragged right. I think it does when lines are set to justified but it's still not as good as a printed book. As a result with justified text you'll see lines that have wonky (very noticeable) spacing between words. With ragged right it just starts a new line when the next word doesn't fit,
and there's consistent space between the words. Do a google search for "daisy consortium ragged right" and you'll see the arguments for why it's better.