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Originally Posted by RbnJrg
With KF7 devices you can't use any image as background. So, loose your hopes in that sense.
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I think s/he knows that. ;-)
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Well, since we can't watch what is the image you are using as background, maybe the property "background-size: contain" is not the properly in this case. Maybe you want to use a background image as border, guard or frame, mainly since you are using it in a TOC. And as other forum members have pointed it out, it can be difficult to read a TOC with a full background image. Also pay special attention all what Hitch told you; she is an authority regarding ebooks for Amazon.
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Yup, it's going to be interesting, and the pesky part is, it's one of those things that you can't really
know until the book is live and on sale. I suspect that the TOC won't look as they want in the LITB, although hell, anything is possible--but containers that work inside a wee device don't seem to work very well in a webpage which by definition, you don't control, and of course, the 'ooops, when I click the image zooms, rather than the link working' issue...that wil have to be experienced, I suspect, for the end client to realize that this mayn't have been the BEST idea ever.
Meh, we've all done and tried a lot of dumb crap over the years. We made a book with sidebars, for crying out loud. I'm still glad we did it, but...sheesh, when I think about people reading that on a smartphone! Oy! Sometimes, you have to let a client come to a realization themselves, with a wee bit of guidance. {shrug}.
I mean, everybody makes mistakes. If you haven't heard about it, Harper Collins (HC) really screwed the pooch on Debbie Harry's latest book, "Face It" in the Kindle version. Some genius decided that because the book was highly visual (a fair number of spreads), they'd make the book in FXL. Okay, so, [shrug], wouldn't have been my recommendation, but I can almost kinda maybe see why. But here's the thing--they didn't make it as print replica. They made it using Kindle Kids' Book Creator--which means, the entire book displays in spreads (not changeable) and, wait for it--you can't zoom the page. The ONLY way to read it is to tap the text and then read each paragraph, in the text box popups. Read, swipe, next paragraph in a box, read, swipe, lather-rinse-repeat.
Nearly 400 pages, like this. Yowza. I was asked to take a look at it, professionally, and I found it onerous on my Kindle 10", much
less on a smartphone or something like that. Apparently, HC also didn't realize that the text box popups
wouldn't work on ALL devices, either.
What a goat-you-know-what. Amazon actually
REMOVED all the negative reviews, lambasting the format, (yes, I know this factually because I personally saw them all and then they
poofed them!), and "they" (not sure who "they" is/are, as of now) are working on a new version. The first new version was
the same exact thing--another KKBC file!!!--and now, not sure
what the latest is. I told the person who asked me to take a look at it on his/her behalf that had it been me, I'd have made a reflowable and lost some of the spreads, in the pursuit of readability.
Now the UK store has a file on sale that
looks like an uploaded Word file (!), so...if HC can screw up, so too can some self-pubbing client somewhere that wants an image behind their TOC. :-)
Hitch