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In the end, all of us have different needs and there is not a general opinion for everybody. A member of another forum sent me an ebook which he had modified with the letter he liked, a perfect black over the screen, perfect contrast... I wasn't able to read a page, for me it was aggresive and nasty. |
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It's not a personal problem. It's a software issue. So yes, my initial statement is correct. I can show you how I like to read ePub and there is no way you can duplicate it (ignoring the header).
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I know hyphenation is a personal think, but have you tried hyphenation with a hyphenation dictionary that doesn't have such ridiculous settings? The default left/right of 5 still can give many lines with gaps. So that makes hyphenation not all that useful. But with proper left/right settings of 2 or 3, you get many less lines with gaps and more hyphens.
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Except that's how-you- like it. Others can use it just fine with how they like it. So your statement is not correct. It's correct for -you- specifically but can't be used as a blanket statement.
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The reason is that typos and wrong-divided words make me lose focus in the reading (I see the fault, no the text), so I prefer avoid what I can. Last edited by Terisa de morgan; 05-18-2017 at 05:30 PM. |
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I also turn off hyphenation completely, because early on, when early ebooks were scanned in, lots of hyphens were included from the printed version, and I got used to checking each one to see if it was an error or not. Drove me crazy, and I don't want ANY hyphens in my ebooks because I will feel compelled to check every single one of them. It's much less distracting for me (FOR ME) when there are no hyphens at all.
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Jon, all books use hyphens, either correctly or (in the case of poorly prepared scans) incorrectly. How can you say there is no hyphenation in the books? Compound words like ten-year-old boy or hyphen-hating reader use hyphens correctly. But unless the incorrect hyphen shows up in the middle of the line or is blatantly wrong, there is no way to tell the difference between one added on the fly or one that has been incorrectly left in from a poorly edited scan, unless I turn off hyphenation, period. I also do not like it when nearly every line ends with a hyphenated word, which sometimes happens. I find it distracting. So I turn off hyphenation.
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Personally, I don't find the full justification and automatic hyphenation done in my ereaders to be very good, so I removed justification from books I edit unless I think there is a reason for it. It has improved over time and it generally doesn't bug me to much if I am reading a purchased kepub. Yes, I could try the improved hyphenation dictionary, but it isn't worth the effort if I am already editing the book. |
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Those are hyphens, Jon. Dashes are either en dashes (usually British or between a range of numbers) or em dashes (usually American). Hyphens are the shortest horizontal line, en dashes are slightly longer than hyphens (the width of an "n" in typography), and em dashes are the longest of all (the width of an "m"). Ten-year-old boy uses hyphens, not dashes.
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