This is why the Kobo eReader doesn’t support justification

There’s a reason why most page layout programs considered “Hyphenation and Justification” to be two aspects of the same feature. I strongly agree that you should never use justification without good hyphenation — let alone without any hyphenation at all.

From John Gruber regarding Safari’s Use of Justified Text in Reader

This, my friends, is why the Kobo eReader doesn’t support justification. Without a proper implementation of hyphenation, the text becomes less readable.


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