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Originally Posted by crutledge
It's all trade-off. There is no solution.  |
Well, one solution is to simply have the author (assuming we're not talking about PD books which need to stay essentially "as-are") reformat the tables. Not every table has to be a table. Tabular data is put in that format because, on paper or in print, it makes sense. But there's really no reason that your standard, x-y table can't be redone into a lot of smaller tables, so that each smaller table has the column header as its title, and the row indicia or names repeated in a left-most column, and the data in the next column to the right. So if you had 10 original columns, now you have 10 tables. This smaller "footprint" works fine in 90-95% of the readers out there, as a table.
I think most bookmakers are deluding themselves about the readability of imaged-tables in e-readers. This isn't directed at you, Charlie, not at all, but in truth, most of them look utter crap on a small-screen device, and zooming them certainly doesn't help. Just my $.02 on the topic. I concur that there's certainly no magic bullet solution.
Hitch