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# Kindle Store Bad Formatting Examples
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Here are some formatting issues I've observed in some Kindle Store manga. Photos are of an eink Kindle, but similar issues exist on the Kindle apps for desktop and mobile.
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(Files generated with Kindle Comic Converter **do not** have these issues.)
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1. faded black levels causing unneccessarily low contrast, which is hard to see and can cause eyestrain.
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## Faded Black Levels
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This causes unneccessarily low contrast, which is hard to see and can cause eyestrain.
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Incorrect black levels causes manga to look faded and washed out, and is a lot harder to see and can cause eyestrain.
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E-ink is already lower contrast than LCD, there's no need to make the contrast even lower with non-black images in manga.
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2. Unneccesary margins, usually at the bottom
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## Unneccesary margins, usually at the bottom
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3. Inferior image quality
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## Inferior image quality
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Here are some comparisons between manga that
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which can be very noticeable around page refreshes.
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I've noticed Kindle Store manga having very heavy jpg compression artifacts, especially around text.
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## gaps between spreads
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4) Incorrect page turn direction for right to left manga.
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## Incorrect page turn direction for right to left manga.
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5) 2 page spread alignment off by 1
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## 2 page spread alignment off by 1
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Sometimes there's a single page misaligned in landscape:
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6) gaps between spreads
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## Conclusion
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Kindle Store manga can have very bad formatting that can be fixed with Kindle Comic Converter
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