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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
If you have a footer you're not filling the page. 
You can display images like that on kindle too, to fill up to all the margins.
In a fixed layout book it's possible to completely fill the page. No margins, no header and footer. Just an image filling the screen. |
Yes, but the truth is, it's much ado about nothing. If someone is creating a kids' book, or a coffee table book, they'll use FXL, and the discussion is over. If they're making a reflowable, it's not like the images are reduced, beyond the scope of the reading page; they're the same width/height as text for the same book/page. If the READER is interested enough in the image to want to see more of it, or see it larger, s/he can tap it. That's hardly back-breaking work.
Yes, yes, I understand that the ability to embed images full-screen, sans margins, would emulate "full bleed" in print, but in print, the end user can't zoom the bloody image. S/he can, in eBooks. And if s/he is adequately interested, s/he WILL.
So, as I said: much ado about nothing. As is inherently designed into the concept and execution of eReading devices,
the choice and options are up to the person reading the book. As the image(s) can be embedded much larger than the screen--unlike print, again--the reader can be as interested (and thus zoom away to her heart's content) or not as s/he sees fit.
Hitch