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Originally Posted by jackie_w
Well, Kobo does enable them by default in epubs which is because that's the default behaviour of the Adobe reading app, also used by Nook, I believe.
I may be wrong, but aren't niceties like hyphenation, ligatures and kerning only the default on Kindles if you use the abominable KFX format?
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With Kindle, you are correct that you get hyphenation, ligatures, and kerning with KFX. If you use the Hyphenate This! plugin or the Hyphenation (Polish) feature of Calibre, you can add soft hyphens to KF8 and have working hyphenation. But you won't get ligatures and kerning.
KFX sucks (IMHO). Given that Adobe can do all three things with ePub (via RMSDK) without needing to change the format, Amazon could have done the same thing with KF8. KFX exists to add unbreakable DRM even if the publisher requests no DRM.