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Originally Posted by filmo
Sony T1 home screen best feature is having easy to read captions below each unreadable cover. This makes it real world practical because I don't have to waste time installing readable covers to make home screen. I'm thankful that Calibre now generates covers with larger font making it readable on home screen. Sony caption below each cover might be same size as Title and Author on book cover but caption is readable while fuzzy low resolution Title and Author on cover is unreadable. I have to admit home page covers on my Kobo touch are much sharper so tiny Title and Author on smallest home screen covers are readable with 4X magnification jewlers loupe. :-)
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A lot of e-book makers include a very large cover, sometimes 2x the resolution on my Aura HD but then they make a tag around the cover defining how big it may display.
A waist of space, this weekend I had a book of almost 2 MB, after resizing the cover there was 396 KB left.
There is a problem with Sony and some other readers, they do scale a JPG file, but can't scale a PNG file or don't scale the image ok,that is why most of the time they define in the ebook itself how big the cover may be so every reader can display it ok,but they are a bit ridicule about the sizes.
By replacing it with calibre, it installs the downloaded JPG file and also removes the defined space, and Sony can display it perfect.
That explains why it look better when u use Calibre.
Look here at some coding:
Code:
<div>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="100%" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid meet" version="1.1" viewBox="0 0 293 333" width="100%" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<image height="333" width="293" xlink:href="../Images/1_Bookmark.png"></image>
</svg>
</div>
Here it doesn't matter how big the cover is, it will always displayed at 293x333 and look bad on the Sony.(and shrinked to a "tile" to a homescreen even more terrible)
But if they include a PNG file 1200x1600 as a cover, they need to use the above code because (until prs-t2 I don't know of the T3) it will go way over the edges of the screen because of the way Sony and some others handles the PNG (not able to rescale).
With Calibre, you download the JPG,replace the PNG with it, it removes the hardcoded image size in the code above and voila,perfect for the Sony
