How Can I Fix Inconsistent Page Sizes in My Ebook?

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Discussion Overview

The discussion revolves around the issue of inconsistent page sizes in an ebook, where some pages appear significantly smaller than others. Participants explore potential solutions and tools to address this problem, considering various ebook formats and device compatibility.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant describes the annoyance of encountering pages that are much smaller than others while reading an ebook, leading to frequent zooming in and out.
  • Another participant notes that the issue may depend on the specific ebook format (e.g., mobi, pdf) and the device being used, suggesting that there may not be a universal solution.
  • A third participant compares the issue to the behavior of PDFs created from photo albums, suggesting that adjusting preferences to display one page at a time could help mitigate the problem.
  • This participant also proposes using tools to separate the PDF into individual pages, resize the smaller pages, and then recombine them, mentioning Image Magick as a potential resource for this task.
  • A later reply expresses appreciation for the suggestion of setting the display to one page at a time, indicating that resizing numerous pages would be tedious given the ebook's length.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants do not reach a consensus on a single solution, as multiple approaches are suggested, and the effectiveness may vary based on the ebook format and device used.

Contextual Notes

The discussion highlights the limitations of potential solutions, including the dependence on specific ebook formats and the labor-intensive nature of resizing pages individually.

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I have an ebook with some pages are normal size, and some pages are small. I'll be reading a page, scroll down, and I'll see like 4 pages in a row that are like 1/6th the size of the one I'm reading, then I scroll down some more and I'll see the next pages normal size, and so on. Is there any way to fix this? It's extremely annoying having to zoom in 6 times on the small pages, and then zoom back out for the normal size pages every time I cross one of those pages that are tiny.
Thanks.
 
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From what I know it depends on the ebook (device) and ebook format (mobi? pdf?), so you will not get any general answer.
 
This is the same behavior with pdfs made from photo albums scrolling through landscape and portrait photos. The best you can do is set your prefs to do page at a time.

You might be able to get a tool to break up the pdf into individual pages then resize the small ones to the same size as the larger ones and then recombine them as a single pdf.

Image Majik tools could help to do some of the work:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

and/or these tools:

http://www.ehow.com/how_5093105_break-pdf-file-parts.html

Image-majik convert command can resize photos:

http://www.imagemagick.org/script/convert.php

And here's someone with a similar problem who used imagemajik to fix the problem:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9706046/imagemagick-convert-multiple-images-to-pdf-size
 
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Thanks a lot. Setting it to page at a time is the best bet for me, I think, because the book has over 1300 pages. Resizing about half of those would be extremely tedius.
 

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