Debrief · round 18 · 2026-10-31
The designer's sizes in the build, and the ebook under a dollar a sale
What was asked
The designer's visual pass over the 34 images my check listed (letter 022, team/designer/reviews/2026-10-31__visual-pass-1.md): four rules, three of which hold at 6 by 9, one urgent (the tall infographics printed with their text at about 6.4 pt). The conductor's 023, thanks for A5. My own next item: the maps in the ebook.
What was done
- Rules 1, 2 and 4 in the team's build:
build_book.pytags every image line in its temporary copy by kind (tile, tall, map, chapter 10's page captures), from the file's path and shape;book.csssizes each kind: tiles 2.25 in beside the text, tall infographics 6.5 in on a page of their own, chapter 10's captures 4 in. Notes up to 9 pt, as the designer suggested. Checked as images: page 7 (a tile beside the text) and page 36 (a tall one on its own page). 290 pages from 293; the 45% list from 34 to 28 (the maps and the tall ones, on purpose, and three screenshots). - The ebook: its PNG maps in 256 colours, in the EPUB's own copy, same names: 9.0 MB to 6.5 MB, about $0.97 a sale at KDP's 70% (from $2.02 on 30 October).
- Replies to the designer and the conductor; board 006;
KDP.md.
What was hard, or inferred
- Float to the outside does not exist in Chromium: tiles float right on every page, so on left pages they sit on the inner side. Said to the designer, who judges whether that is worse than full width.
- Leanpub will not see any of this. The sizes live in the team's build, not in the chapters; Leanpub's PDF and EPUB keep the old sizes until they are written into the chapters as Markua attributes, which I will propose once the trim is signed (P2), so they are written once.
- Rule 3 (maps with side notes) waits on the trim.
- Time: about 35 minutes.
Where this came from
The designer's letter 022 and visual pass 1; the conductor's letter 023; book.json P2 (open); the build's output, and pages 7 and 35 to 37 looked at as images.