From Fox News: Clayton Morris and fellow reporters use the Apple iPad, examining the e-book functionality.
Rumor has it that the iBooks e-reader currently does not let readers choose an “unjustified text” format. I hate reading justified text but am assuming that future version of iBooks will fix this. From a post by John Gruber:
iBooks uses full-justified layout for books, with no apparent option to switch to ragged right. It doesn’t do hyphenation, so you wind up with very unsightly word-spacing gaps. No e-reader I’m aware of does justice to proper book typography, but I was hoping for better from Apple. It’s decent web-caliber typography, not print-caliber typography.
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I suspect that changes will be made. This is after all version 1.0 of the IPad, and they did have to set a cut-off date for features.
Debbie,
Don’t know if you’ve heard of Roughly Drafted, it is a blog that covers Apple in depth:
http://www.roughlydrafted.com
There is also a Roughly Drafted Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Roughly-Drafted/432348860261?ref=ts#
I’ve found Roughly Drafted a good place to get updates on Apple.
Wayne
I thought justified text was supposed to be easier on the eyes. Perhaps that’s just for printed-on-paper text? Is it different for screens?