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Originally Posted by kso
Damn. Completely forgot the sarcasm tag. Sorry 'bout that. But seriously, I found the aspect-ratio queries somewhat erratic, whereas the amzn-mobi and amzn-kf8 queries work.
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I agree that they are erratic, but they seem to have stabilized a bit from when we first attempted them...gosh, I dunno, 2+ years ago? They do seem to work better now.
It is always a sense of wonderment to me, that invariably and inevitably, as sure as the rising of the sun follows the night, the Media queries and other coding examples in the Publisher's Guidelines, from Amazon...will not work correctly or at all.
For years, the text-color example didn't work and the text box? Don't get me started.
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some extent. We tend to deal with a lot of yammer that is more about "exactly" matching someone's print layout than simply channeling the look/feel of the print book. I cannot tell you how many times in the course of a week that I have to explain that we don't have kerning/tracking in eBooks and/or that we can't adjust the leading throughout. (sigh).
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I know it's easier to find fault in other people's work, but I seem to notice even small mis-alignments or bad spacing. And I do not obsess, it's just that I notice. I've only started reading on a kindle about 18months ago, so I've dealt with dead tree books all my life. And I habitually look at the design of everything before and after the main content. Some books are really beautiful, but a there are some that seem to have had accidents during production (or earlier).
klaus
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It is indeed easier to find fault with others' work! And it's typically happy-making to notice, telling yourself that
of course, you would have done better. Ha!
It's satisfying to design or create a good-looking ebook--but it's equally easy to be exceedingly disappointed by the result when you see it overridden in a Paperwhite, or on KCR, or completely obliterated in iBooks, etc.
You have to take it in stride, because other than going with PDF as your "ebook format," the reality is, your control is limited.
Hitch