Re: Images +a bit about translations

>If you submit a book with small images, that *cannot* be converted to a
book with large images, ...

On the contrary, if I submit a book with small images, it *can* be converted
to a book with large images, because I have already done most of the hard
work, which is finding and fixing almost all of the scannos.

I think the idea that a book submitted to PG is "once and forever" and
cannot be improved-upon by future volunteers, indeed is not even allowed to
be improved-upon by future volunteers [!], perhaps using future better
markup languages, or better scanners, or better sources found in some
library or somewhere on the internet, well I think this "once and forever,
no improvements possible" model is very sad and pathetic.

What could be useful, and worth thinking about, is a way of caching large
images for possible future use or consideration, perhaps as part of the
submission process. Or even making the large images available on PG as
backing files available to the public, somewhat analogous to the IA "All
Files" directory.

But, in the current submission process, the design of the "one size fits
all" HTML/EPUB/MOBI triplet is by its very nature a requirement by the
submitter to compromise.  If, for example, HTML and EPUB were allowed to be
submitted separately, then perhaps some more intelligent
volunteer-implementer tradeoffs could be made, with the HTML targeting
larger machines, and the EPUB targeting smaller machines.

Please note in my current work process "the larger images" never actually
exist, since I am working on images with an understanding of the goal I am
trying to achieve, which is small compact images which still, hopefully,
maintain somewhat the artistic integrity of the original work the way it was
originally intended to be read. And in turn the current image storage
formats we have available to us do not even provide good options for doing
this, certainly not for woodcuts, somewhat analogous to the problem that
HTML does not provide good options to do poetry -- or even reasonable
dropcaps. [Or cover pages, or indexes, or ....]



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