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Originally Posted by HarryT
And neither have I seen a single report of this bug on the Kindle forum.
Sure, Hitch encountered it while creating a book for one of her customers, and she is a knowledgeable and experienced ebook creator, so I'm sure she is absolutely right in what she says, but:
1. It appears to manifest in very specific circumstances which rarely occur.
2. Amazon have acknowledged the existence of the bug, which means that it will be fixed. Amazon tend to fix such things pretty quickly.
To describe it as a "major bug" is just... silly.
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Gang:
To clarify: yes, it's a actual bug. Amazon was pretty surprised by it.
The circumstances are, true, somewhat limited. However, it will, at this moment in time, affect ANY book that has images embedded that are intended to be 50% or larger, but not 100%, of the width of the device. The bug will blow them up to 100% of the width. Now, this may or may not be an issue with the books you read. If you read fiction, it's unlikely to...forgive me,
bug you, but if the author you're reading used larger fleurons, or chapter head images, it might annoy you. It's certainly making my client with her "swoosh" chapter heads pretty unhappy.
I suppose that if a chart blows up to be too big, you can use the zoom feature to reduce it to readable size. The same with other text-intensive graphics (charts, tables, and that ilk). I image that for most images, in, say, memoirs, and the like, it's not an earth-stopping issue. We do a TON of memoirs, and most have images that are between 50-100% of the screen, so yes: those are ALL affected, and their images will look positively dreadful, as there's little you can do with 60-70-80 y.o. images to make them larger or crisper.
So, in summary: it's certainly a "major bug" for ME. I imagine that if/when other ebook producers notice it (most won't, sadly--many, many companies don't even buy the devices!), it'll be a big bug for THEM, too. Whether or not it's a major bug for you, as a consumer--I can't speak to that. It depends, by and large, on how/what you intend to use the Voyage for, to be ungrammatical.
But: at least now, you'll know about it. And just because I've only discovered this, thus far, doesn't mean it's the only display bug, mind you. My Voyage will be here on Monday; I imagine we'll note other minor or major issues after that point in time.
Hitch