I watched How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World recently and really enjoyed it. Since I thought that the film trilogy was so fun to watch, I got curious about the books from which it was adapted from and discovered that the books were very simple, as the words were in large font with many pages containing small cartoonish pictures.
While not what I expected, I still kind of wanted to read it, until I read some of the reviews on Amazon disparaging the e-book version of the series. Many said that the e-book is not like the typical file, where fonts and word size could be adjusted, but rather was like a PDF with only a single size per page. This makes sense on a technical standpoint since many pages contain pictures, but effectively killed what little motivational whim I had to read it since I'm too lazy to check it out from my town's local library.
While I can't see this idea being used in everything, would a viable strategy that books up to maybe the YA level be to splash small images into pages to combat the ease of e-book conversion? Or would that actually just lower the presence of readership, like it did for me? I'm also rather lazy so maybe I'm not a good barometer.
Example Review: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1HNU92YWTEYIX/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_ttl?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0316085278
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