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Originally Posted by Quoth
I used to do that, but now they have vanished. Only the nearly useless "look inside" which doesn't match any eink Kindle view?
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The LITB (LookInsideTheBook) is basically the Kindle Cloud REader view--no fonts, nuthin' fancy. It's
effectively the old KF7.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Big publishers seem to do mad stuff too. We are lazy, so formatting is simple and KDP get the same epub as others. I see mad stuff in azw3 I've never seen in epubs.
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Yes, but we like our customers' fonts and they do too, and we do a crap-ton of non-fiction; tables, charts, figures, you-name-it, and we use media queries for those so that they work as well as possible on the various devices. We can't give an ePUB with MQ's in it to a customer for use everywhere, as you know, so...two files. At my shop, there ain't One EPUB to Rule Them All! I mean, sure, some novels, yes. But for our rather extensive non-fiction group? Not so much.
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Originally Posted by j.p.s
No, but since the image quality tends to be so much better, I'm going to be buying epub versions of illustrated books that I already have as they go on sale. That should be enough to build or tear down a circumstatial case. I've seen plenty of amazon sold books with complete page number info with no amazon supplied apnx so I think that is evidence in favor.
Of course if authors, publishers, etc would provide data points, that would be great.
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I am DYING to see the results of this. I literally
cannot remember if we all already
knew that PNGs were being converted to GIFS, or not? I don't think we all knew that. Or hell, maybe I did and simply forgot. I know that we (my shop) tend to use PNGs for charts, figures, and the like. And if we
knew or suspected that those were being converted to GIFS, that would make the most sense. And yes, of course, we also use GIFs when feasible.
The page number info? You can create your own "RPNs" or "real page numbers" through the process of using anchors, links, etc. and I know for a fact that those work in the in-the-wild eBook. We used to create a real page index, at the very back of the book, for Amazon to use but at some point in time (2016?) that seemed to become unnecessary and redundant.
Hitch