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Some pages are blank when viewing on kindle scribe #5

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Jimmy-Z opened this issue May 6, 2024 · 2 comments
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Some pages are blank when viewing on kindle scribe #5

Jimmy-Z opened this issue May 6, 2024 · 2 comments

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@Jimmy-Z
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Jimmy-Z commented May 6, 2024

And it's quirky to reproduce.

sometimes the blank pages are "inserted": previous page and next page should be adjacent, I don't actually miss a page.
sometimes it "replaces" a existing page: I do miss a page here.

sometimes when I navigate back to a blank page, it shows.
sometimes when I navigate back to a previously shown page, it shows blank instead.

I tested three manga, two of them show this symptom, the 3rd doesn't, one thing I notice is that the problematic two has image resolution higher than kindle scribe, I'm guessing this is the culprit, at a glance this tool doesn't do resize.

Then I tried resizing the images to <= 1860x2480, this doesn't seem to solve the issue, but resize them to <= 1440x1920 seems to do the trick.

@NioXen
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NioXen commented Jul 18, 2024

I have the same behaviour
I also tried kojirou which has the same issue (I only mention this because I believe they use the same mobi library)

Edit: I wonder if this is a scribe limit rather than being an issue with the library itself? If you make a mobi for the scribe using Kindlegen it will downscale to 1440x1920 as per this PR on KCC.

Edit 2: I've just tested as you did above and found that the blank pages do render if I go back to the home screen, select the manga, and zoom on the empty page. When I zoom in, it loads, and I can zoom out again. If I swap page and go back to it, usually it's returned to being blank... Very strange...

Edit 3: I have just regenerated all my books after using a script to resize all images to be contained within the resolution of the scribe (largest size without changing aspect ratio), making the images grey scale JPG's and using only double pages. So far I haven't had a single blank page. Not sure what the key is, but one of those operations seems to have 'fixed' it

@darthtechworker
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If you swipe between pages very quickly, you can replicate this issue. However if you read at a normal pace, this issue never happens. I noticed this when I just converted a Manga and was just skimming through it to see the quality.

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