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Originally Posted by tomsem

I think it's going to take a series of updates to improve Print Replica support.

Yes, I think so too.

Comic book format (at least from Kindle Store) does support page turn animation.

Mhh, do they usually come as KF8? Have to investigate why my sideloaded KFX comic doesn't animate - maybe it is not officially supported. Sideloaded KFX print replica fools the Scribe into thinking it came from the store, and offers to view it there. Have not actually tried to see what error message I get when looking up a book without ASIN in the store.

Contrast setting as it exists applies only to text rendered from fonts. Comic books don't generally have such text: they're just pages of images, optionally with 'panel' definitions. So there's nothing to apply contrast to, unless you want a contrast setting that adjusts the contrast of the image as a whole (which would be a new feature of perhaps dubious value).

That is what I thought as well, but the contrast setting in PDFs applies to text and images, unfortunately. It doesn't do it by making the text bolder, but by reducing the gamma. Text looks really nice, but images are so dark as to be unusable.

There are also fixed layout books (not categorized as comic books, but I think it is the same format) that do have actual text laid out on top of a page image. However Kindle platform does not support any operations on this (lookup, highlighting etc.).

You mean AZW4, which is a PDF in a AZW container?

Comic Book format does not have any accessibly features. One should be able to add alt-text with authoring tools so screen readers (and potentially TTS engines) can access that. And of course if its HTML has text content, you should be able to select it and do lookup, highlighting etc.

There is so many things you should be able to.

Print Replica is potentially 'accessible'. The Kindle app will, for example, read text out with Speak Screen on iOS, however there are issues (page turns do not synchronize with spoken text). (I have been meaning to try Voice View on Scribe to see if it works at all with Print Replica documents.)

Please try, if you have speakers or headphones hooked up to your Scribe. I am not even sure where my BT headset is.

So I agree that the 2 formats could benefit from some cross-pollination of features, wherever it makes sense.

But first, I want to see Scribe support for Print Replica measure up to the baseline set by the Kindle apps. Until then (as you relate) people are going to find reasons not to use it.

Even now, Print Replica is not great in the Kindle apps: does not support dark mode, does not support facing pages in landscape, no TTS or well functioning accessibility. But I think that's because they have not been widely encountered by users until now. With uptick in usage there will be more reason to improve the functionality and performance.

I doubt Amazon will listen to us. But, wishful thinking.