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Originally Posted by AlexBell
Thanks, Hitch. I said it was mysterious.
The cover looks like
The The XXXXXXXXX XXXX
Except that the second The looks to be 'in front of' the first The, and a little of the first The is covered by the second The. And the XXXX is not completely over to the right; it overlaps the XXXXXXXX
The author and editor specifically refused permission for me to send the screen shot to the forum. I'm only the ebook designer.
One think I've noticed since is that calibre has a different setting for Kindle Voyage than for other Kindle models. I use the straight Kindle setting. I don't know if that's related.
Thanks again for your trouble. The Kindle Voyage user, the author, and I have agreed that this is one of life's great mysteries, and have moved on. |
Given that I seem to recall that you do this as an unpaid hobby--is that right???--they seem awfully ungracious.
How about two quick tests, then?
Can you make a dupe of the book, and change the page AFTER the cover, to different TEXT and see if you get a ghosty afterimage? Of the NEW text?
Or, can you just take some cover (has to be light in color, IIRC) from some book here at the MR library, and slap it on the new faux book, and...oh, you can't, because you don't have a voyage, right?
Crappity. Well, look, if they'll allow it--which I am betting that they won't--you can send the file to me, Alex, and I'll sideload it to my Voyage and see what I see, and swear on the heads of my furry family members not to distribute it to the millions of adoring fans that are just DYING for it...OR, I guess, we can all ignore it.
TBH, I never--never--flip back to book covers in Kindle, or any other damn reader, but I KNOW I've seen this--we had a customer complaint about it, on a PPW, about...3 years or so ago. Very similar--the title page was bleeding through. There was bupkus we could do about it, but, man, the reason that I recall this is because the client was a TOTAL PILL about it, as if we had ruined her book deliberately.
I've now dragged out my K2, my V, and my PPW, to see if I can see a similar issue here.
I'm sitting here, LOOKING at ghosting on a cover. On my Voyage. FWIW. Without testing, Alex, we won't know if that's what your uncooperative client is seeing, or not. And only YOU know, of the persons now discussing this, if the "the" that you're seeing even COULD be the title page, or whatever comes after that cover.
That's my $.02.
Hitch