View Single Post
Old 03-15-2014, 11:34 PM   #10
Marcy
Guru
Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.Marcy ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
Marcy's Avatar
 
Posts: 897
Karma: 950683
Join Date: Oct 2009
Device: Kobo Libra2
Quote:
Originally Posted by AnemicOak View Post
I have some books with maps and pics that work just fine in digital format, they're high rez and you can zoom in to get even more detail. The problem with most books is that the publishers only include small low rez versions (which often look like a scan of a scan of a photocopy) instead of larger higher rez images. That's the publishers fault, not the fault of ebooks.
Yes. This.

I have some books that include high-res pictures so that I can open them on my computer and zoom in on them. And others have really crappy pictures, so that even though I can open my book on the computer, all zooming in does is give you a big huge blurry mess.

I read a lot of fantasy with world maps included and I find most of them are totally unviewable, even on the computer.

As an example I've attached a picture of the map of the Well World that came with my copy of Exiles at the Well of Souls that I bought from Baen. There is really no excuse for such a crappy image which is unreadable at any size. I would think a company like Baen that embraced ebooks so early and fully would have done a better job.

As AnemicOak said, it is clear they just scanned the page from the book and stuck it in here.
Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	wellworld.png
Views:	594
Size:	312.2 KB
ID:	120317  
Marcy is offline   Reply With Quote