Amazon has done us all a favor and
added hyphenation and a new font (Bookerly), and has refined its support for drop caps.
Hyphenation and improved spacing — Kindle Paperwhite
adds hyphenation to break words at the right place, creates paragraphs with consistent lines, and adjusts the space between words.
Not exact matches
The KFX format is also «pre-rendered» to some extent, such as having
hyphenation pre calculated and
added to the text as either soft - hyphens or html tags.
I did
add a note to the posting that I had updated spelling and
hyphenation — I also changed «to - day» to «today» for example.»
Language Support — iPad wins as it has lots of apps which
add lots of features like support for
hyphenation (Stanza).
This includes
hyphenation, justification, tracking, kerning, and all the other refinements that
add up to truly beautiful type.
Is
hyphenation preferred over simply
adding gaps between whole words to even out a line?
It makes sense to me that these very small improvements in character placement — combined with updates in word spacing, the addition of
hyphenation and drop caps to emphasize the first word of a chapter — will
add up to better readability for the Kindle 3.