Re: Images +a bit about translations

>Scanned page images *shouldn't* be the best way to read books (unless they
contain a lot of layout).  If PG (and e-reader programs, for that matter)
handled images decently they would not be.  But they are.

One can find plenty of awful page image books too -- page images containing
images which require a great deal of digital image manipulation to get them
to a "readable" [or viewable] state.

PG offers images in three sizes right now:

1) zero sized -- no images at all.

2) what the volunteer HTML submitter chose based on their best understanding
of what would be best for the PG community -- or perhaps based on what they
ate for breakfast that morning. [I know I am reluctant to submit books over
10 meg in size -- due to downloading speed/cost issues for e-book readers on
slow cellphone connections.]

3) what the PG html to epub/mobi converter software does to that html file. 
 
One could image a downloading system which resizes images "on the fly" based
on the target machine. Amazon already does that -- not sure their system has
been very successful.

But this is starting to sound like the forever-ongoing "big machine / small
machine" arguments....


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