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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
Plus not all readers support zoom in the first place, nor is zooming ever a great experience on eInk devices.
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But surely it would be supported on the majority of the readers of those for whom imagery is important, no? In my opinion, the problem usually takes care of itself. Those who primarily read text-only novels or text-only non-fiction favor eink (or not; I read novels on a tablet for instance). Those who want to see full-color imagery and/or multi-media favor tablets with various reading apps installed--where pan & zoom is fairly instinctual (or they get a larger tablet so they don't have to zoom as much). Those who do a little of both, have multiple devices.
I think too much time is wasted on trying to present images in exactly the way that the book's creator wants them to be
seen. It makes more sense to me to trust that the user to whom those images will be important will already be looking at them on an appropriate device, with an app that fulfills their image-viewing needs. The rest will be clicking/tapping to the next page regardless of how big and glorious an image's presentation might be. Just make sure an image of sufficient quality is present for them to manipulate. They'll have figured out the rest already themselves.