Thread: Kindle owners should have a Kobo
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Old 05-27-2020, 09:16 PM   #117
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What is it about hyphenation you hate? Did you hate hyphenation when you read pBook before reading eBooks?

That is what I find really odd. People read pBooks and had no issue with things like full justification, hyphenation, indents, and no space between paragraphs and had no bother. Now with a Reader, all/some of that can be a bother. If it wasn't a bother before, why is it a bother now?
To me the problem with hyphenation in ebooks is how often it happens and that it happens in strange places. For paperbooks, good layout means there are relatively few split words. That's because, at least traditionally, someone inspects and tweaks it. In ebooks, it is automated and if the algorithm isn't right, words are split in the wrong place, and spacing can get too wide. A better hyphenation dictionary can help, and the algorithm does seem to have improved while I have been using ereaders, but I still prefer ragged-right on my ereaders.
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