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Old 01-08-2021, 11:43 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by Hitch View Post
I had one of the very first "bricks" in Arizona (where I reside, for my sins). I even had a custom-designed briefcase to hold the cursedly heavy thing!

I was tethered to a cellphone for ages, whilst working in my then-chosen field. Once I left that arena, right around the housing collapse/crisis, I didn't have a smartphone for dog's years. absolute yonks. Then I had a flip phone, for safety reasons--accident, call the cops, etc.

We then moved and we're in a mountainous location that has NO cell service, wait for it, inside my home. You have to walk out, away from the house, about 500 feet in any direction to get a signal. Do that in the middle of July or August, when it's 117°℉!

Nonetheless, here, it's become quite literally impossible to live and use a computer without one. You can't pass security tests, generally, without one. Amazon (on the publishing side) requires two-step validation/verification and it's a nightmare trying to get them to send an email, rather than a text message. Ditto my bank, which insists on sending me notifications of dicey transactions (I seem to get a lot of practice identity theft, for some bizarro-world reason), to my PHONE, not my email. Thus, I gave up and got a phone that's effectively a small computer, a Samsung Note 9. At least I can use the cursed thing, but...I don't blame you a'tall for not having one. :-)

Nonetheless, being pristinely technical and all that, Tex is right. But for those of us that still love designed books, sigh....
The place we live in doesn't get all that good a cell signal. But we have a solution to the problem. The solution is we have a provider that supports WiFi calling. So I don't have to worry about the cell signal. You can do the same thing. Get a phone and a provider that both support WiFi calling.

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Jon, there's nothing wrong with trying to continue to find a better solution. Don't try so hard to close down the conversation or thread.

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There is one other solution. SVG for the chapter header except for Mobi (obsolete format). But other then that, I cannot think of a solution that would work in enough cases to combine the graphic and text as the OP originally wanted to do.
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