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Originally Posted by Hitch
...and, of course, what would REALLY soften the shock would be the realization that not 1 person out of 100 ever looks at the cover of an ebook after it's been purchased and downloaded from the e-store [...]
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I will say I am one who loves the covers every time you mention this (and that I despise when they are low resolution or generic crap)!
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Originally Posted by Hitch
The iBooks' glitch with centering has been known for a good 3 or 4 years now. For plain old alignment web CSS does not work. For it to work, as has been mentioned here (for everything: text, images, whatever), you have to wrap the element to be centered in an empty something, whether that's a span or a div.
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Eh? Wasn't that bug fixed a while back? I could have sworn I read on a bunch of comments that the empty <span> "workaround" was obsolete and not needed any more.
I don't have anything iBooks related, so I never tested it personally, but I believe I would have heard complaints by now. Ugh... iBooks makes me very angry.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
I wish I could come up with some simple, elegant demonstration that in a 15-second video could explain a) why a cover of a certain size won't magically fit ALL devices, and b) why that 10" x 15" book that has 3-columns and images floating next to text, etc, can't be CRAMMED into 17 square inches of space for a regular ebook screen and still be readable.
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Hmmmm... I always enjoyed the videos showing off the differences between Fullscreen/Widescreen shots, or explanations about the different definitions of TV/Movie/Video. Perhaps you might find a super short video/dumbed down explanation of those concepts?
Although they will probably turn right around and say "yeah, but that is TV/Movies/Videos... that isn't about BOOKS AND BOOK COVERS".
Reminds me a lot about people who use overscan on their TVs, because they "hate the bars and want the image to fill the screen". But they are degrading the picture by tossing out ~5% of the data, and who knows what the gods damn software is doing to all the pixels that it now has to "resize" to fit on the screen! Instead of being a 1:1 pixel ratio, now it is all skewed! Makes me want to pull my hair out!