Bands of Mourning Kindle Newspapers

[Amaror]

I just recently started to read Bands of Mourning and noticed that the Newspapers in the Kindle-edition didn't have any plain text afterwards explaining what's written in them. That was one of the things I liked most about the previous 2. Era Mistborn books. There are so many informative drawings in Brandon's books and any notes and hidden secrets are always impossible to read in the kindle editions. It's really annoying. 

I even checked if there was an update for this. Nothing on auto-update and I even asked the amazon support, but they apparently have no such update availible. I feel quite a bit disapointed now. The books are really good, but they are allready quite expensive considering the amount of content they provide in comparison with Brandons other books. And now some of the content that is there is basically unreadable.

Edit: Just noticed I accidently put this in the spoiler thread. If a mod could move it into the regular Mistborn Thread, it would be great. Thank you.

Edited September 19, 2016 by Amaror

[Argent he/him]

I am not sure if you are asking about something, or just expressing general displeasure. Either way, I sympathize with your frustration, but the only advice I could give you is to maybe just walk into your local bookstore, pick up a copy of Bands, and look at the broadsheets right there.

[WeiryWriter he/him]

It's also been posted on Brandon's website.

[goody153]

On a somewhat related and unrelated thought at the same time i really like the "Having the has Sazed a metal" famously spoken by Spook lol Man i love the little details even to fictional newspaper

[Amaror]

18 hours ago, Argent said:

I am not sure if you are asking about something, or just expressing general displeasure. Either way, I sympathize with your frustration, but the only advice I could give you is to maybe just walk into your local bookstore, pick up a copy of Bands, and look at the broadsheets right there.

It was meant for multiple questions.

Why wasn't this fixed yet? It's been half a year and this is an online book, it can easily be updated and has happened before with Brandons books and this is a rather large fault of the book. I expected a bit more service there, considering these books, while good and worth it in my opinion, are on the lower end of the content/price ratio.

And why don't they do something similar with the other books of Brandon? Having a clear text of all those tiny notes on the drawings would help A LOT. Exspecially since they often feature information about the world or at least nice little easter eggs.

[DeTess she/her]

Doesn't your e-reader have a zoom function for images like this? I can zoom in on mine (A Kobo something) and read them without much trouble.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

I have a Kindle and it did give me the bigger version of the newsletter. I could also zoom in on the full page broadsheet. Not sure what's going on with yours...

[Argent he/him]

1 hour ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I have a Kindle and it did give me the bigger version of the newsletter. I could also zoom in on the full page broadsheet. Not sure what's going on with yours...

My Paperwhite can't do that. It can be annoying at times.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

You should have the larger broadsheets though... I do.

[A Secret Corner he/him]

22 hours ago, goody153 said:

On a somewhat related and unrelated thought at the same time i really like the "Having the has Sazed a metal" famously spoken by Spook lol Man i love the little details even to fictional newspaper

Having the where of the having of when?

[Argel he/him]

The Kindle PC app does not as far as I know have the ability to zoom in. Seems like a crazy oversight....  

[PantsForSquares he/him]

On 9/19/2016 at 0:11 PM, goody153 said:

On a somewhat related and unrelated thought at the same time i really like the "Having the has Sazed a metal" famously spoken by Spook lol Man i love the little details even to fictional newspaper

My favorite part is the fact that A Hero for All Ages exists. The ambiguity in its title make it sound like a either really awesome historical play, or potentially an adaptation of the events of Mistborn Era 1, but for kids.

Like a historically-accurate version of Disney on Ice, but with Allomancers and Steel Inquisitors. The weird part is, I'd like to see both versions.

4 hours ago, Secrets said:

Having the where of the having of when?

It's an actual quote by Spook.

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Edited September 20, 2016 by PantsForSquares

[A Secret Corner he/him]

16 hours ago, PantsForSquares said:

My favorite part is the fact that A Hero for All Ages exists. The ambiguity in its title make it sound like a either really awesome historical play, or potentially an adaptation of the events of Mistborn Era 1, but for kids.

Like a historically-accurate version of Disney on Ice, but with Allomancers and Steel Inquisitors. The weird part is, I'd like to see both versions.

It's an actual quote by Spook.

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I know, but I've always had an interest in *ahem* High Imperial.

[Amaror]

On 20.9.2016 at 11:45 AM, randuir said:

Doesn't your e-reader have a zoom function for images like this? I can zoom in on mine (A Kobo something) and read them without much trouble.

The problem with that is that those images are fairly low resolution on the kindle. It kindof works with the notes on maps and stuff in other BS books, but the text in the newspapers is so tiny and low res that it's even difficult to read when zoomed in completely.

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

I think it must be an issue with your download or device. I have the Fire and I have no problems with either the zoom function or the larger text versions of the newsletters. Actually, my zoom worked well enough for me to use the face of the person on SH's cover as a model for a drawing, which requires very good resolution.

[Jondesu he/him]

On 9/25/2016 at 6:15 AM, Kingsdaughter613 said:

I think it must be an issue with your download or device. I have the Fire and I have no problems with either the zoom function or the larger text versions of the newsletters. Actually, my zoom worked well enough for me to use the face of the person on SH's cover as a model for a drawing, which requires very good resolution.

The regular Kindle with the e-Ink screen is far poorer with images like that (I have one myself). The Fire is basically just an Android tablet like any other, while the basic Kindle is very different. Great for text, not so much for images.

jW

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

It doesn't explain why you don't have the larger text after the newsletters though, because I have it in every ebook version of BoM just like the other books. The text shouldn't be different.

[Jondesu he/him]

11 minutes ago, Kingsdaughter613 said:

It doesn't explain why you don't have the larger text after the newsletters though, because I have it in every ebook version of BoM just like the other books. The text shouldn't be different.

True, I did have that.

jW

[Kingsdaughter613 she/her]

The OP didn't. That's what is really strange.

[Shardbearer he/him]

Hmm, the broadsheet text was missing right after release on my Kindle book, which I reported in the typo thread. Peter replied and said there was a update to fox this already. I'm pretty sure I updated it then and read the broadsheets on my Kindle book.