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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Oh, there's a big misunderstanding
I love paper books and enjoy my 20,000 library.
Ebooks can never be displayed like the corresponding typesetting of paper books.
Ebooks cannot change the font width, they only have to concentrate on the spaces, which is not the case with paper books.
I can read paper books fluently - if you try the same layout for ebooks, only word for word - the different space width in relation to the font width inhibits my reading flow.
And that's why I want a completely different layout as soon as I read electronically.
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This is, it's a completely different type of font and the layout issues you have with Readers still exists. Even if you use left justify with no hyphens, you end up with some distracting formatting when you get noticeably short lines. Kindles are notorious for dropping one out of the story when the line is short and it's left justified vs the most other lines at full justify.
The font width is not an issue. That is what is is based on the font. Reading is better when we have kerning and hyphenation. Though one thing with pBooks is most fonts display with enough weight. With eBooks and eInk Readers, the fonts might or might not have enough weight.
But how is it decided to change from serif to sans-serif and decided that left is best?