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Originally Posted by Katsunami
No. Covers and other pictures need to be as large as possible, to cover future screen sizes. If I have a map which is 800x600, it works fine on a current lower end e-reader. It will also work on a 1600x1200 e-reader, but it starts to struggle at higher resolutions.
At some point, there WILL be devices with resolutions such as 8000x6000 pixels, and then the covers and maps will look horrible.
The very best solution would be to have illustrations in SVG or another vector format, as much as possible, and have all bitmapped illustrations in a huge resolution.
I don't care if an e-book is 10MB, and 9MB is taken up by covers and maps.
It's easy to create a reader fast enough and with enough storage to handle that. Any tablet can easily do it, so one could take the processing power of a small tablet and design an e-reader around it. It would be a good replacement for an e-reader such as the Voyage.
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Sorry, but an 800x600 map that has text to be read is not acceptable on an eInk screen with a resolution of 1430x1080. In most cases, the maps are even lower resolution than 800x600. So when viewing images that are meant to be read or the detail is meant to be seen, it can be hard to see because the image on screen is now too tiny to see well. take a map that's 2/3rds the size of an 800x600 screen and put it on a 1430x1080 screen and try reading the text or seeing some of the detail. It isn't easy.