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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well, dang. We've all seen the folders, in unpacked mobis, with the higher-rez and lower-rez images, but...this sounds wild to me. I mean, why deliver such a low-rez version to the Oasis, of all places? The Oasis is higher-reaz, really, than many of the eInks, if memory serves. (Weren't most of the eInks at 169ppi and the Oasis was higher, or am I misremembering?)
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My Oasis screen is 1264x1680 pixels and the maps in this book are meant to be shown as a full page. I can't think of a good reason for Amazon to have butchered them in this way.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
That's really interesting, jhowell. I always assumed that yes, of course, different "versions" were being delivered, but I admit I never suspected that the image quality would be that enormously different. Never really looked hard, I guess.
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I hadn't noticed this extreme level of image processing before either. Perhaps it is something fairly new or just uncommon.
My working hypothesis is that it was triggered by publishing those maps using large, detailed GIF images. If I am right about that the decision of whether to use GIF or PNG or JPEG may end up being important.