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ecbritz · 04-11-2013, 07:48 PM

Thanks. Once one is certain about a limitation or systematic feature, you can try to work around it. If one fills the whole cover page with a single image, you are apparently going to have this problem of mine, once you set your e-reader to a single-page display. With a widescreen monitor your cover image will be stuck on the left side with a blank space -- where the second page would be positioned in a two-page display -- on the right. I'll try to combine pictures with text outside rather than inside the pictures, for the cover page, to see how that works in one-page and two-page displays. One should also consider making a second page, immediately following the cover page, which matches or continues the cover in some way, for an attractive two-page "first encounter" of the book. I'm just thinking out loud!

04-11-2013, 07:48 PM	#3
ecbritz Book Concocter Posts: 59 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: China Device: Sony Reader	Thanks. Once one is certain about a limitation or systematic feature, you can try to work around it. If one fills the whole cover page with a single image, you are apparently going to have this problem of mine, once you set your e-reader to a single-page display. With a widescreen monitor your cover image will be stuck on the left side with a blank space -- where the second page would be positioned in a two-page display -- on the right. I'll try to combine pictures with text outside rather than inside the pictures, for the cover page, to see how that works in one-page and two-page displays. One should also consider making a second page, immediately following the cover page, which matches or continues the cover in some way, for an attractive two-page "first encounter" of the book. I'm just thinking out loud!