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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
One of the problems that still remain with ereaders I guess. If I was reading the real book it would be perfectly legible.
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If I'm understanding the comments of others in this thread, the problem here isn't so much with ereaders but with ebooks. Having a higher resolution screen doesn't help that much if your content is low resolution. You can enlarge/interpolate the image which will help with the size (and as mentioned by someone else publishers could do that themselves), but won't really improve the resolution. The publisher could have included a higher resolution map and I presume if the ePub is properly designed the publisher will specify desired size so low resolution readers should automatically downscale but that would increase processing time to display the page and also increase file size. Presuming it's supported by the ePub format, the alternative would be to include multiple different resolutions of the image (whether as separate files or in one of the formats that does the sort of thing) which would increase file size even more, but not affect processing size quite so much. Unfortunately for a variety of reasons including the niche status of high resolution ereaders (although the PW and Glo are already fairly high) means many publishers aren't going to bother. Tablets might be a saving grace here since high resolution tablets are getting to be fairly common and I think many publishers just provide one format for all. (Unless perhaps they have a colour version for tablets.)