Gizmodo article: How To Fix Today's Ebook readers

[tompe]

Originally Posted by petermillard

Well, you might want to define 'properly'; did I look through all 2000-odd titles we have in our collection before posting that? Ummm, no, but I checked out a few from a variety of publishers, genres, and decades, both in hardback and paperback, and none of them were hyphenated at a line break.<shrug>

Out of interest, did you check more than the one you found at first try?

Cheers, Pete.

I just looked d throgh a couple until I found the first one. Now I took three books from the shelf. All three used hyphenation at line breaks (Bruce Sterling: The Artificial Kid, Stableford: Balance of Power and Swanwick: Jack Faust).

The next book I checked only seemed to hyphenate at line break for words like hidey-holes. That is a case I think you should not hyphenate at line breaks since it is ambigious.

So I have a hard time finding a book that do not hyphenate at line breaks.

[Magnesus]

If a book is justified to the right it needs to use line breaks. It's not optional otherwise your book would look like... well, like something not good.
If a book is not justified to the right it will probably not use hyphentation also.