12/17/2022 0 Comments Images look bleary in kindle previewer![]() I also came to the conclusion that this has little if anything to do with politics. IMAGES LOOK BLEARY IN KINDLE PREVIEWER FULLAnd that is when I realized the Sad Puppies were full of BS. And after reading blog posts by Torgerson and Correia, I decided to see what the other side was saying. So my introduction to the issue was from the sad puppies themselves. Even then it didn't really register until I started looking for online writing critique workshops and found the Baen discussion boards. So I only became aware of the Sad Puppies in the last few weeks when I heard about them on NPR. Sad Puppies remind me of the stereotypical obnoxious tourist vocally dissing the country they are visiting and wondering why the natives are so annoyed.Įven though I have been reading SF off and on since childhood, I was never a part of Fandom. And to them words like "trufan" and "Fandom" are elitist and cliquish. They seem to think fandom is just a group of people who like the same thing. I don't think the Sad Puppies realize that. SFF Fandom is a functional, thriving subculture. Not only are they unfamiliar with the culture, they don't seem to even realize that it is a culture. ![]() #5: "Most of them seem unfamiliar with the culture they have been trying to usurp" This could lead an Administrator to have to put his/her foot down and do what Admins hate to do: make a subjective decision and say, "No, that's not SF&F, and I'm disqualifying it." It would have to be tremendously clear to anyone except a rules-gamer, though. Mind you, they might decide that if there's no definition, they could pick something that nearly everyone except them would clearly say, "that's not SF&F," as opposed to merely an edge case, and throw their slate-weight against it next year. The idea that we (in effect) define SF&F by taking the collective opinions of the electorate and saying, "That's SF&F" is maddening to people who are convinced that the gaming of rules systems is paramount. The comments I've ready from people trying to define SF&F amount to, "Of course I know what I consider SF&F, and I'm the Standard Human Being, so naturally I'm right, and anyone citing anything is doing so for nefarious purposes or is just misled." I don't think it terribly surprising that a group of people who resolutely hide behind having followed the letter of technical rules while subverting its spirit thinks that there is somehow a detailed technical definition of SF&F. (That’s possible).īut it sucks if you have a beautiful ebook that people won’t buy because the preview is sloppy.#25 ::: Kevin Standlee ::: (view all by) ::: May 11, 2015, 11:30 AM: Maybe they do it so the books will be readable on all devices and computers. They obviously have all the right technology to get it right, but the Look Inside feature and Cloud Reader are stripped down of normal Kindle capabilities. I thought maybe when I uploaded the file to KDP they’d “cleaned up the code” – but nope, I bought the book and downloaded it to my Kindle Fire, looks great, all the fonts and formatting is perfect. This is what the book should look like in most Kindle devices (this is the Kindle Desktop app):Īnd it looks great in Amazon’s Kindle Previewer app for the various devices. But mainly, indents don’t always work nor do embedded fonts. If I’d have started from scratch and hand coded everything, I might have been able to do better. Part of the problem (maybe the whole problem) is that I was in a hurry so I started with Calibre for conversion and then tweaked it in Sigil, which results in messy code. Here’s how it looks on the Kindle Cloud reader.Īnd the ebook is pretty bad too – here it is in Adobe Digital Editions. You may not think it looks that bad, but a lot of the headers are centered or right aligned, some text is normal or bolded, some text is larger than others… it’s really messy. It also looks like the Table of Contents isn’t working. Of course now that it’s up on Kindle for real, it looks like crap in the “Look Inside.” I finally got all the headers and blockquotes to look pretty good. I spent 10 hours yesterday re-coding the ebook files for my new book, Write, Format, Publish Promote. ![]() Today however I’ve proved myself wrong (or right, depending on whether you’re following my words or my actions). I ignore my own advice, because for me, style and design are as important as content. Because it’s unlikely to look good on all different platforms and ebook readers.īut that’s so boring. In my books and with my clients, I routinely stress to keep ebooks very simple. ![]()
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