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Originally Posted by Nick_1964
That is how it works on my Glo (tried it this morning) but this and the other way don't work on my aura HD.
But, for me,it is a useless function,the shown pictures are optimized at the way it displays the best for the reader.
I use my e-reader for books,in the ideal world all pictures in a ebook "must" been optimized for displaying on a reader,but they don't are in practice.
It is nice to have a high quality color picture with 16 million colors on a tablet,but most of the readers,even in color,can't display more then 16 shades so why put a cover inside that takes more space then the total book itself ?
The pictures of the slideshow look very bright and beautiful,but only because they have a rich pattern of dark black,on white backgrounds,they look so sharp but only because they are 8 bit grayscales in exactly the resolution that every device can display.
That doesn't appear in a real ebook that you buy.
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You seem to be against the very idea of displaying pictures on an ereader. I am not much for Graphic Novels, myself, but I have seen a few on my Aura HD, and they did look quite impressive. Then there are many novels that I read which include maps. (I sometimes even go to the trouble to extract the maps from an epub and run them through Gimp2, scaling them to match a full page on my reader.) Then there is non-fiction works to consider, many a chart or graph are provided as graphic images/pictures.
There are most often "pictures" in the ebooks that I buy. The cover image is often an RGB full color image, that my reader has no problem rendering in grayscale. I usually have Koreader even use the books cover as a "screensaver". The covers do take up some storage space, but I have plenty of that, in just one 32gb uSD card. (My AuraHD usually has two installed.)
Luck;
Ken