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Originally Posted by JSWolf
How did you read paper books before eBooks? pBooks have uneven spacing.
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Most pbooks use micro-justification (letter spacing changes as well as adding extra space between words) and manual assisted hyphenation. Heck, I remember Wordstar on a Qume daisy wheel printer way back in 1986 doing micro-justification and it looked pretty decent except when it decided to shrink the space between words to allow a line to fit.
In contrast, ebooks tend to add normal (~.25 em) spaces between words which at times gets very ugly.
Perhaps one day an ereader will handle micro-justification and feathering so we'll stop hearing complaints about gaps at the bottoms of pages as well but that day isn't here yet.
And the sad part is that in the 10 years since this thread was started, there have been no real improvements.