Re: Aftermarket Afterlife by seanan McGuire

On Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:33:02 +1000, Mad Hamish
<newsunspammelaws@iinet.unspamme.net.au> wrote:

On Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:16:53 -0700, Paul S Person
<psperson@old.netcom.invalid> wrote:
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:54:36 -0500, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
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I just do not have shelf space for hardbacks.

I do mostly Kindle books now, as my bookshelves are quite full.
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But my experience with the Kindle edition of /From Hell/ showed me
that Kindle is not really suited to graphic novels, manga, art books,
and similar items. So I still get them, on rare occasions, in paper.

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The kindle app on ipad works ok for things like that

It worked "ok" on my reader, if by "ok" you mean being very very
large, and showing parts of an image in a different (and fuzzier)
resolution than other parts when viewed separately.

The latter was the real problem: I would see an image of three parts,
but when I selected each part in turn the left and right ones would be
magnified (and fuzzy) while the middle one stayed at the same level of
magnification and sharp. It also didn't do so well with really large
double-page images.

Of course, this doesn't have to be the player's fault. It could be the
fault of the people preparing the file. Certainly some of the wierd
things I have seen in text on the Kindle resulted from how the file
was prepared. But then, a file format that is so flexible that it is
possible to mess things up unless you are very diligent and very alert
isn't really ideal either. Something more constrained that ensures
that each document it accepts will be displayed properly would be
preferable.

It also didn't help that the only part of /From Hell/ I actually
enjoyed reading was the 2nd Appendix. Although I must admit that, the
next time I saw the film adaptation, the scene where we are looking at
a horse's bridle for an excessive amount of time made sense because of
the graphic novel: it is basically all that remains of the incredibly
boring chapter of how London is a Masonic city.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"