Comments on: Guest Post: There’s More To Book Layout Than Meets the Untrained Eye

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confidence in kids — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:03:58 +0000

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By: Marion Gropen

Marion Gropen — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 22:29:16 +0000

This was a guest post, and I don’t really know much about laying out text.

Despite that fact, I still have an opinion on this issue. (No surprise there, to those of you who know me!!) The poor quality of the layout in Kindle books is, IMNHO, largely attributable to the lack of a hyphenation and justification engine in the Kindle programming. If there were such a thing, it would be able to do full justification and still change the font size and the screen size/shape on the fly. Without one, you’re left with those terrible justification problems, widows, orphans, and all the rest of its atrocities, and there’s not one thing a poor publisher can do to change those issues.

FWIW, I think we’re stuck with some of this.

Marion Gropen, your host

By: mobiDude

mobiDude — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:51:26 +0000

Although I wholeheartedly agree that this type of formatting should be left to the professionals, I am still interested in knowing what kinds of software and tools are used. As someone who “transforms” documents into mobi format, I am trying to better understand the poor quality and awful layout I see in the Kindle books…

Any, and all, insight you can share would be appreciated.

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By: Katy

Katy — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:19:38 +0000

Good point, some things are best left to the pros.

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