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Originally Posted by phillipgessert
When this is one of your goals, you have to be willing to make sacrifices in basically every other area, especially fancy navigation and very particular image display. It doesn't mean it has to look ugly, and it doesn't mean absolute zero control over the design, but the range of what's acceptable has to be much, much wider. Gotta work with a light touch, no one's impressed by a busted ebook.
And I get it feels weird seeing an existing example you want to ape. My advice is don't worry about it. How it got there, how it was made to work, when, etc. etc. doesn't really matter. If it's really got a ton of whizbang, that's a book that's taking lots of risks, and this isn't an area that really rewards risk-taking.
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that's the thing. To be compatible with the MOST devices, he can't have that navigation option. To have that nav option, he won't be compatible with most; he'll cut himself off from millions. He's convinced that it won't, BECAUSE he downloaded that particular Playboy-esque book to his own Paperwhite. But, as I said, Amazon's made significant changes, in their policies around fixed-layout and they've been switching over FXL ebooks to "no eInks need apply" for the last 2 years that I'm sure of.
Oh, and, of course...there's no such thing as "One Aspect Ratio to Rule Them All." I mean, shoot, even if you decide "I only care about the Fire devices," they'e different and then what are you go do about
the Fire 10", where they can read in portrait or in two-page up mode, in landscape...which completely changes the aspect ratio on a single device?
It just isn't print and it's not that simple or easy. Or...it's less straightforward than it looks, that's the right way to say that. Simple is better, for most books.
Hitch