Ok, so there's this textbook I've been reading for an art course I'm taking. And it's really starting to bug me.
Cuz like, it's an art textbook, so it makes sense that it would need more pictures than the average textbook since, you know, when talking about a piece of art to explain a particular concept, it helps if you can see the piece of art in question. And... it does have pictures. Many of them. But they are not-at-all well spaced out. >:I
Like, you'd think it makes the most sense for each image to be fairly close to the text that is referencing it. And for the first few pages of each chapter, that is indeed the case, as each page (and by 'page' I mean a set of two pages - like everything you can see without needing to turn the page) has a fairly-decent balance of text and images, and you can clearly see each piece of art referenced by the text. But then, after only a few pages into a chapter, you notice that often times, a paragraph on the left-page will reference an image positioned on the right-page, as it becomes apparent that the text references more images than they're fitting on the average page, and the images keep shifting to further and further ahead of what you're actually reading, until you spend a good chunk of the chapter needing to turn the page in order to see what they're talking about the entire time, which becomes really tedious when you feel the need to look back and forth between the text and the image all the time. This continues until around the middle-end of the chapter somewhere when you find yourself needing to make two page-turns in order to find the referenced image, and only then do they finally try to let the images catch up. So then for the rest of the chapter the amount of text on the page becomes lighter and lighter until there's only about a paragraph and a half per two-page-set, thus giving them room to jam as many images onto the page as possible, so that everything lines up nicely again by the end - and you can move on to the next chapter and start the whole cycle over again.
Like, is it really that hard to plan the chapters out a bit better so that the images line up a little better and they don't have to reserve 2 or 3 pages towards the end for virtually images alone?
/meaningless rant
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