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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Many e-books have tiny images, but I think the popularity of tablets is changing that. When I read "Wicked Bugs" and "Wicked Plants" by Amy Stewart on a 6" e-ink screen several years ago, I checked out paper versions from the library to refer to the illustrations. I recently looked at the illustrations in these on my Nook HD+ in the Kindle app, and they looked amazing. It turns out that the subtle shading on these doesn't come out well on e-ink, but at least it shows that at least some e-books have higher resolutions images. I hope that reviews start covering this aspect.
Some e-readers clip large images, so it is not just a matter of pressuring publishers to use larger images. The reading software needs to handle them, and the HTML/CSS needs to be done correctly.
I hope the awareness of this issue increases. It is really sad how needlessly bad most e-book images are.
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I totally agree! I used to often try to read my Amazon purchased ebooks on my computer using the Kindle app, and the images were so ridiculously tiny and low resolution they were worthless. It was especially frustrating for non-fiction books like those with fashion illustrations or interior design photos... with teeny-tiny photos. I could never understand why they didn't just use nice high resolution photos.
The various devices should be able to figure out how to display a higher resolution photo rather than defaulting to worthless low resolution photos. I had to return books because the photos were so awful.
I made up a couple of books for my own use and always used the largest photos I could, and they never failed to display on my Kindle Keyboard. I'm not sure what the difference is in the case where a previous poster here said large photos won't display on Kindle devices. Maybe they were way bigger than the large photos I was using. Still, no reason to use poor quality. Fix the eReader software instead!
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Originally Posted by DNSB
Using Kobo's .kepub.epub formatted books, you can tap on an image to zoom it. Pretty useless in most cases since most of the images are low resolution -- one ebook I was recently reading had maps that were 120x144 pixels so zooming gave you a closeup view of fuzz.
If you use the correct css, an image can be set to use as much of the page as possible without needing any user intervention. Sadly too many publishers of epub format ebooks seem unable to pay any attention to how their ebooks look on a screen with more than 600x800 resolution.
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Publishers and developers really need to fix this.