I’ve noticed that a lot of publishers like to put photos in the middle of some non-fiction books.  I’m guessing it has to do with the type of paper used, since it’s usually glossy as opposed to the normal paper of the rest of the book, and putting it in the center makes sense.

The problem I’ve found with this, though, is that you have to be very careful not to look at all of the pictures when you get to them, since you’re only halfway through the book.  The captions on the pictures can spoil things for you by giving away events you haven’t gotten to yet. 

However, you’d think that when the book is released as an eBook they could move the photos around so you don’t run into them before you’ve read the relevant part of the book.  I’ve been reading The Shadow Divers, which is about a group of divers who found a German U-Boat in 1991 off the coast of New Jersey that “wasn’t supposed to be there.”  Given the way the pictures are arranged, it’s actually harder to skip the pictures in the eBook format than it is with a physical book.  With a book, you can simply feel your way to the end of the photo section and keep reading.  The eBook requires you to scroll through the photo section.  Given that I’m capable of getting the meat of an entire paragraph at a glance, it was very difficult to get past that section without learning more than I wanted to at the time.