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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
With typography, as with most things in life, there is a threshold. Below that threshold text becomes difficult to read for most people. Above that threshold, only typography nuts complain about the lack of typography. IMO e-books are well above that threshold.
They correctly handle typefaces, punctuation, paragraphs, text styles.
They fail on: hyphenation, widows and orphans
Of the fail list only hyphenation is something that a non typography nut would notice.
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And they fail on rivers and everybody notice that.
But the point is that a text is still harder to read even if an untrained person does not notice any problems. So there is still a need to enhance the text to make it more readable.