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I like the Knuth/Plass technique as well, it creates much more uniform and visually appeasing line margins. The reason something like it would be so difficult to implement is that it requires heavy geometric processing every time the content reflows, which would impact Hyphen's performance a lot. Another issue I see is that it would pollute an ePub's DOM more than I'd care for.

There is, sort of, but iBooks makes this difficult to all but the most stout-hearted.

If you visit `~/Library/Containers/com.apple.BKAgentService/Data/Documents/iBooks/Books/` on your Mac, you'll find extracted versions of your `.epubs`, if you've downloaded them into your iBooks Library. The problem is, that in order to be valid ePubs they'd need to be archived again (as a .zip renamed to .epub, which is all ePubs are).

Also, iBooks uses DRM on paid(?) books downloaded from the store, making this more complicated even then.

So, yeah. I've plans for a desktop client that might make importing from iBooks possible/easier, but I'm a little afraid to go barking up that tree.

Hello dombili!

Thanks for the feedback. :)

- App price not on site: Not quite intentional, no. I plan on changing that.

- Screenshot inconsistency: Hmm. Oh - actually, that is the same part of the book, roughly, I believe the paragraph margins changed, however. Something to fix.

- Mac version: Yes, actually. Right now I'm stabilizing Hyphen, but once I've done that and implemented Syncing, there will likely be a Mac version.