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Originally Posted by davidfor
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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I've yet to find an incorrect hyphen with RMSDK. I know that pBooks layout can be manually adjusted. There are tricks one can do to get things to layout as wanted. eBooks have no such tricks. But, with eBooks, there are some choices. There's left justify and on Kobo, that also means no hyphenation. There's full justify with and without hyphenation. Given those choices, I find left justify looks ugly and full justify looks best but needs hyphens or there will be too many gaps.
As for paragraph spaces, I never read books that had such wide gaps between paragraphs and when they exist in eBooks, I find that to be very sloppy coding. It can actually take me out of the story. I like the formatting to fade into the background so when I am reading, I don't pay attention to how the eBook is laid out. I don't care for paragraph titles that waste a lot of space, but I can deal with it such that I'm not taken out of the story. There is other sloppy formatting that can take me out of the story that I fix.
What I want to know is how do we go from indents, no paragraphs spacing, full justify with hyphens to a completely different format when we've been reading one way and not having any complaints about it?