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Originally Posted by ahi
(3) they want to stick it to the pretentious jackass that's acting like they can see some mysterious aesthetic difference between one set of bunch of letters on a page and another set of bunch of letters on another page.
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I spent three years dealing with people who swore blind they could tell the difference between losslessly compressed audio and uncompressed audio, despite us proving scientifically that the output was identical. Their magical abilities mysteriously went away in double-blind tests, but they always blamed that on the equipment.
So I'm used to dealing with the pompous 0.1% of the population that cares about something so much they're willing to see and hear things that aren't really there.
In your case, I _do_ see a difference between good formatting and ebook formatting, and I do wish that they could do proper justification using hyphens because sometimes the spaces in a line of few words does bother me a little, but that's it. I generally don't notice it while actively reading, which is what really matters. I also read significantly faster using my ebook than I do with paper books so the poor formatting is obviously not affecting the readability that much.
I guarantee you that if we took a population sample and did a readability study using "typographically perfect" output compared to simple output, the results would be inconclusive.