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Both HT's WWII Diary and Ben Phelper's books have been optimized for viewing with a maximized browser window and a resolution setting of 800 x 600 pixels. The pages themselves are designed to look the same on any browser capable of browsing the World Wide Web. They're also made so that you can put them on your hard drive, should you decide to do that.
Most of the pictures in the WWII Diary are much smaller than a
monitor screen so there ought to be no problem seeing them in their
entirety. However, some of them are still rather large so if
you're viewing them from the CD drive there may be a noticeable lag
loading them. Copying the CD to your
hard drive will speed up the load time of all the pictures on
the CD considerably.
Kriegie Memories was printed on glossy
paper and even though it has faded noticeably over the years it
remains legible. The scans of KM used in this collection were made
in 1998, if memory serves. The paper that Shot Down was printed on
is plain white paper with a cover of grey lightweight cardboard. The
paper has aged considerably and scanning it produced images which are
legible if left large, but become nearly inscrutable if shrunk to the
size of a computer screen. I was forced to convert them to 2 tone
grey scale in order for them to be readable, so unfortunately the
reader will not be able to enjoy the visual experience of browsing an
antique book.
Each page of Kriegie Memories was scanned as a single picture with
its width sized to fit inside the width of a maximized browser
screen. Of course, since they're rectangular and in portrait
layout you'll have to scroll down the page to read it. The
pages were scanned at 600 dpi in 256 colors then converted to
greyscale. A page's size on screen at 800 x 600 pixels is
slightly larger than the size of the page in the book, and the image
quality is as good as or better than what you'd see looking at the
pages of the actual book- some sharpening of the images was
automatically done by the scanning software. Being at 600 dpi
you can enlarge them just a bit if you want to see a little
additional detail but the pictures in the book have deteriorated over
the years so there's not much more detail to be seen. Nevertheless,
the images are still rather large and if you're using an older,
slower computer you'll probably be happier if you copied the CD to
your hard drive.
Those are all the technical details I can
think of.