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Originally Posted by sufue

Marcus Agrippa: Right-hand Man of Caesar Augustus is a biography of...you can probably guess ...by Lindsay Powell, published by UK specialty publisher Pen & Sword. It has recommendations by profs at some pretty respected universities: University of Texas, Cornell, and University of Buckingham. It has dropped to $1.30 as part of today's US Kindle Daily Deal. My son loves Roman history, and although not quite as enthusiastic as he is, I like it too. And it's nice sometimes to read about the really important, but not-quite-headliners, of history. So, I'm probably going to bite on this one.

I did scan through the first couple handfuls of reviews of the Kindle edition, looking for comments about the maps/figures issues that have been mentioned for some other Pen & Sword books, but didn't see any. Doesn't mean they aren't a problem - just that the reviews I looked at don't mention them. And in the sample there is a family tree figure that looks okay too - not great, but definitely okay.

Anyway...

link: https://www.amazon.com/Marcus-Agripp.../dp/B00TOXQLDY

It has been reported the kindle for pc and fire tablets get excellent quality images in this book.

Originally Posted by jhowell

I took a look at the List of Consuls in the free sample of the book you mentioned. From what I could see, Amazon is likely to be responsible for the image quality issues that you mentioned in that book. The original version provided by the publisher to Amazon used high quality images.

With Kindle books a lot depends on the device to which the book is being delivered and the format used. I looked at the sample in two different formats, KF8 (azw3) and KFX, both downloaded using Kindle for PC. I compared the total file size of the sample and the size and resolution of the JPEG images that make up the List of Consuls. The images in the KFX version were noticeably clearer with fewer artefacts and are likely closer to what the publisher originally provided.

The KF8 version was 1.4MB and the images were 932x1117 (126KB), 789x1340 (119KB), and 1638x444 (110KB).

The KFX version was 12.3MB and the images were 1252x1500 (1.2MB), 1031x1750 (1.2MB) and 1638x444 (330KB).

Originally Posted by Hitch

I had the sample delivered to my Fire10, figuring that that would give me the best view of the images, and they are all quite crisp there. I see no difference whatsoever between the full-page images on the Chronology or the list of consuls, versus the last page, even when zoomed. These are pretty good and undergo zooming--significant zooming--on my F10 without degradation.

I don't see poor quality here.

Hitch