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Originally Posted by goldilocks
Personnally I don't like full justification. I just read a book that had two words on one line - one at the beginning and one at the end, with a big blank spot in the middle. I never liked pbook spacing either-too many extra spaces between words.
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Well obviously if you make the lines that short, things change.
But otherwise, typographically well-made books will avoid stretching interword spacing by too much even with full justification by hyphenating words to fit nearly the same amount of characters on every line. That's really only possible with fairly advanced typographical programs like InDesign, Scribus or--the free alternative--LaTeX. It's not current possible with anything using ePub source.
So in the meantime, my favorite book format is PDFs made to have the right size for the reader, which can be done with LaTeX. But those are rare. ePubs tend to come next, but I'd still prefer full justification. (PDFs not made to have the page size of the reader of course are much less readable, of course, and I'll usually process them with something like SoPDF or PDFLRF first.)