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Originally Posted by FizzyWater
This would be one of the few advantages I can see to reading on tablet rather than an eReader - the publisher could include a link to a higher-resolution version of the map for those able to check online while reading.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
That would be great, but has a publisher ever actually done that?
It would also be nice for books with high resolution illustrations to have a web site with just the illustrations so people without tablets can view them on a computer. Even people with tablets could benefit from a large screen. Panning around, even if it is available is not the same.
For some books with decent enough color illustrations and long stretches of text, I have ended up reading with e-ink for the light weight and better for me text display and switching to a table to look at a pretty picture.
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The book "The Age of Insight" by Eric R. Kandel, published by Random House, has a viewable or downloadable PDF file with charts and images from the book. Very useful.
It really annoys me when finding that a non-fiction ebook has an index of illustrations, but the illustrations have not been included in the ebook version. Or there are references in the book to illustrations that are not included. Maybe I should try complaining and returning the book.
Not quite as serious, but still annoying is when the illustrations are not found near the text that refers to them. Some have them at the end of the book, or at the end of each chapter. Similar to footnotes.