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Old 02-07-2015, 01:48 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by DaleDe View Post
Images with width set to 100% will maintain aspect ratio which is why you see this but low resolution images will appear blotchy on large screens. Most eBook reading devices are in portrait mode most of the time, not landscape as you have shown. I would never read on a screen that wide unless it had multiple columns.

Dale
Dale:

This is a long-running discussion or disagreement between NJ and I. He insists on telling newbs to always set ALL their images to width="100%" for mobi. I've repeatedly said that this is a bad idea, because the images can overdrive, if the reader uses a very large reading pane. {shrug}.

I'm not going to keep arguing with him. If I wanted to do that, I'd go post over at the KDP, where the lunatics really have taken over the asylum. (Not meaning you, nj--it's just simply vile in there these days.) He'll persist in doing what he's doing until he has a reason to do otherwise.

This is an image set to a simple % of the window--with a SINGLE-page view, in K4PC. You can see the single-column width of the reader overdriving the image into fuzz, although at "regular" or even remotely regular size, it's fine. This isn't even a good example--I simply had it to hand. If I put my mind to it, I could find a lot of really awful ones.

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