Dropped $90 on that "Cats of Instagram" coffee table book and the photos are terrible resolution

I saw it at Barnes and Noble and thought it would be a fun conversation piece for my living room. Flipped through it in the store and the pictures looked fine, but when I got it home and sat down with it, like half the images are so pixelated you can barely make out the cats' faces. It's like they just grabbed whatever low-res files people posted online and blew them up. The captions are also super cringey. Did anyone else get burned by a fancy looking cat book that was all hype? I need recommendations for one that actually has good photography.

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lunawilson4d ago

I mean, is a pixelated cat picture really that big of a deal... it's a $90 book, not a fine art piece. Flipping through it once for a laugh and leaving it on the coffee table still gets the conversation started, just maybe for the wrong reasons. The cringey captions are probably the bigger crime, honestly, who writes "this is Mr. Whiskers, he likes to judge your life choices" unironically... I get being annoyed, but it's not like they ruined your family photo album.

drew_west4d ago

Yeah I actually read somewhere that the publisher just scraped Instagram tags for the images instead of reaching out to people for high res versions. That would explain why half the photos look like they were taken with a potato from 2010. The worst part is that you can tell which accounts they ripped from, there's one page with a cat that has a watermark from a 2015 Tumblr post still faintly visible in the corner.