Thread: CES09: Microsoft color flexible epaper?
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Old 01-09-2009, 03:11 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by ProDigit View Post
This is one of the reasons why we should start thinking of scanning and creating colored versions of ebooks.

So far I've always made 256 tint greyscale (8-bit) covers. But we would do better by creating color ones; live with the fact that the ebook gets10% larger in filesize, and enjoy the book in color when the market opens up to color-e-reading devices.
So far the PRS-505 does not seem to show any difference between an original (color) picture, or it's 8bit greyscale version.

or you save your original scanned files in the format they were intended to, and then convert in the future.
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