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Old 11-19-2014, 12:38 PM   #1
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patches of paler display, apparently text-based

Strange thing - not a major drama, but very curious - the last couple of ePubs I've read on my Aura HD have had pages where patches of text have been noticeably paler and spindlier than the text around them.

It might only be three words or so on a line, then the same on the next line, and on the next, so that it's an area of the screen that's pale, not a lateral string of concurrent text.

At first I thought it might be my screen that was faulty - some damage to the substrate - but when I turned the page, it wasn't occurring on the next page, nor on the one before the occurrence. But it wasn't just a refresh thing either, because if I went back to the page where it occurred, there the blotch of paleness was again.

I opened up the ePub in Sigil, and checked the code, and found nothing. There was no coding I could find that might account for it; no change of font or font attribute, no text colour, no floating graphic (no graphics in the body of the book at all, other than the cover art).

Anyone else seen this happen, and can point me to an explanation?

(P.S. I haven't seen it occur in the book I'm currently reading, so I'm assuming it's really not the screen and that it's specific to certain books. But I still can't see what could be causing it.)
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