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Justified (centre) |
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64 | 46.04% |
Left aligned (ragged right) |
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59 | 42.45% |
Does not matter |
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16 | 11.51% |
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I voted for justify.
I happen to prefer no hyphenation as well. Perhaps, because I read with a pretty small font I have never really suffered with crazy spacing issues. |
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You've got a much better brain than me then. My brain takes too long to put the words with huge spaces between back together again. I end up losing concentration and just give up. Maybe this is my dyslexia rearing its ugly head.
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I prefer no such huge spaces but I can stand it. Left aligned, I can't. I have to modify the book.
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Well, I wouldn't like to have huge spaces in the middle of a line, but I have run across this only a few times. Usually in the ebooks I read, the spaces between words are pretty small, no matter what kind of justification is used.
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I prefer justified with occasional ragged rights when justified creates too much empty space, which is what kindle used to do with the old mobi format
I dislike hyphen- ation. |
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I have a strong preference for full justification with hyphenation. If I read on a narrower screen I'd use more aggressive hyphenation settings to avoid word spacing problems. I'd rather have a hyphenated word at the end of every other line than a ragged right margin.
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I selected doesn't matter but I don't like either the extra space between words added or the jagged edges. For reading I use coolreader app that has a hyphenation dictionary which solves the problems for many instances.
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I strongly, strongly prefer "justified" text. And I adjust the fonts to be on the larger than average size.
A ragged right edge really slows me down. Quote:
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We were conditioned to like full justification, because books are usually printed that way, but the [paper] books have enough characters on line that you do not get this uneven-spacing problems. Plus, typesetting for printed books used to be done by a trained human hand that can address problems with non-uniform typographical grey. Newspaper columns are also printed that way - typically very narrow columns, but they have to be printed with full justification, because otherwise you would have difficulty seeing the right border of the column. |
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Using left-aligned text has no justification whatsoever.
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