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Written by petes_bread_eqn_xls on 2025-01-14 at 20:14

It’s ridiculous that ebooks are still treated as second class citizens when it comes to images. You pay just as much as the print book, but the photos and maps are often tiny and compressed to the point of uselessness.

[#]ebooks #PrintBooks

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Written by eMarginalia on 2025-01-14 at 22:55

@petes_bread_eqn_xls

I agree! Older ebooks are the worst. Made for not-so-good original kindles and so on. But some modern/current books are just as bad.

If you scan a book to get the text, what is it about the trivial work to get bigger, higher res images at the same time?

OTOH there are some image-heavy books with such large images they are overpowering. (Not Manga and the like, that is a special case.)

Of course if you get any pirate or amateur made books, they can be great or horrible, no telling.

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Written by Bruce Davie on 2025-01-15 at 02:29

@petes_bread_eqn_xls since I publish ebooks via Amazon and Ingram, I can say that publishers have some control over image resolution, although there are file sizes limits imposed, and Amazon charges a by-the-byte delivery charge (it’s not huge, but it incentivises smaller images). It’s just not the case that you can opt for the highest resolution and forget about it.

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