Hi All,
(Not sure where to put this, so starting here since I was doing it on a Sony Reader.)
I was experimenting today: I thought I'd try to load a background "texture" image via the css of one of my epubs (why? see below). I found some textures that looked okay on the computer screen (see
here, choose textures and then stationery). I altered an epub and loaded it onto my Sony 650 ... and the result was awful. It was like someone had spilt e-ink all over the screen. And when I closed the disaster of an ebook the reader appeared to restart itself - as if powering on from scratch, no other books or bookmarks were lost but the restarted device did not register having opened by the new disastrous epub (which I then deleted as useless).
Does anyone know if background images are possible/supported? (Either by epub and/or by Sony Readers - perhaps using some other format.)
Perhaps it is just a matter of using the right sort of background image, if so, does anyone know what is the "right" sort.
Why would anyone want to do this? Because it's there! ... No, more seriously, I've already mentioned on another thread that it's probably time I got my eyes/glasses checked (and I'm going to do it, any day (or week) now), and I am hoping that after that I will be more comfortable with my reader. That said; There is little doubt now that I find the reader harder on my eyes (even using the too-large medium font) than reading a paper book. I seem to get tired faster, it's as if my eyes have trouble focusing at the right distance, and when I looked at the background, the "white" screen, it occurred to me that it was innately difficult to focus on; that it was almost like the words were sitting in the air rather than on a surface. So, thought I: lets solve the problem by presenting a textured surface beneath text. At the very worst it would prove or disprove my theory ... or so I thought. As it turns out, the worst was that it didn't work and that it seemed to upset the reader. But hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time.