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doubleshuffle · 10-24-2017, 03:14 AM

The last book I uploaded to our library is a book with many full-page illustrations, many of which are much wider than high. In formatting the book, I followed a time-hallowed tradition in printed books and turned those images by 90 degrees in order to better use the screen space. Works great with my reader - I turn it like I would a printed book and can look at the picture.

Now, however, I have had a request to produce a version without the rotated images because the person's reader seems to do the tablet thing and auto-rotate, making it impossible to look at the pictures properly.

My question: How many readers are there that do that? Especially, how many on which you can't switch off the function? Is it necessary to produce two versions of illustrated books?

10-24-2017, 03:14 AM	#1
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