![]() In a sense, these 3 things are rules, but it’s often difficult to comply with all three at once. The booklet will be listed on your Home screen.įiled Under: Featured Posts, Kindle Publishing Tagged With: image size, images, maximum image size The plus sign (+) indicates that a copy is being placed in the folder on the Kindle drive. Then drag the downloaded file from your Download folder into the Kindle Documents folder. Find the drive letter assigned to the Kindle and expand it to see all the folders. In Windows, click the Start Button and then Computer. To transfer the file to a Kindle device, connect the Kindle to your PC with the USB cable. Save the file to your computer for viewing in Kindle Previewer or Kindle for PC. See what you think! Free Kindle Preview Fileĭownload Kindle Maximum Image Size (PRC) (98KB). I’ve made a very short Kindle booklet with my test images that you may download (link below). I think the best way to get your head around image dimensions and decide what you want to do for your own illustrations is to see test images on your own Kindle, or in Kindle Previewer, if you don’t own a Kindle device. Plan ahead and make the print images at 300ppi for CreateSpace first, so you never scale up from small screen images. If you are making images for a book to be printed, resolution affects the print size. For example, if you make an image 600 x 800 pixels using Photoshop, it will look exactly the same on screen whether you use 72ppi or 300ppi. When creating images for viewing on a PC or device with a screen, the pixel dimensions are what matters, not the resolution. That’s good! You want a bigger reading area anyway, no? Images will look bigger on a PC than they do on your Kindle device because of the difference in pixel density and you can view them in a window significantly larger than the Kindle reader screen. Kindle for PC is, by necessity, the same resolution as a computer screen. The discrepancy is surely due to the difference in resolution between a computer screen (96ppi, 120ppi or more) and the Kindle New Generation eReader (167ppi). Nevertheless, they displayed very well on the Kindle device itself, and look good when clicked to “zoom” in. Images that deviate even a couple of pixels display distortion or banding with test images. However, I think it’s possible to use an image a few pixels larger with an acceptable, and very slight, decrease in quality.īe aware that on the Kindle Previewer, the optimal dimensions that Tallent advises for Kindle 2 (520px by 622px) are the only ones that displayed perfectly. I’ve created similar test images for Kindle New Generation, and the results show that his recommendation for Kindle 2 works for Kindle New Generation, as well. A more accurate demonstration of what actually works is shown for Kindle 1 and Kindle 2 devices by Joshua Tallent, in Kindle Formatting: The Complete Guide. The Formatting Images help page says nothing at all about dimensions, but says: “An HTML image with an aspect ratio of 9 to 11 automatically displays with maximum screen coverage.” It’s enough to make your brain itch!ĭimensions that fill most of the screen and do not trigger resizing are close to, but not exactly, 500 by 600 pixels. The latest Publishing Guidelines state that 500 by 600 pixels is the maximum size. They will be compressed to fit, but zoom nicely when clicked. Images at 600 by 800 pixels are perfect for the cover image, but are bigger than the viewable area. Images made at 450 by 550 pixels will not fill the viewable area. See Feed Kindle Fire More Pixels for post-HDX information about maximum image width.Īmazon’s formatting guidelines used to recommend that large images be 450 pixels by 550 pixels, and the DTP Forums will repeat that advice and provide conflicting answers. See Full-Screen Interior eBook Images for updated information prior to release of the HDX devices. Newer Kindles have a variety of screen sizes and resolutions. Important! This post applies to older eInk Kindles. Reduction also degrades quality, but not as dramatically. Increasing image size can result in visible pixelation. The dimensions of an image that will not trigger resizing by Amazon’s DTP (Digital Text Platform) or popular publishing applications, such as MobiPocketCreator or Kindlegen. ![]() A caption also requires some vertical space. Unlike a book cover, which fills the screen at 600 by 800 pixels, pages have margins on all four sides and a narrow location bar at the bottom, which takes up space. The dimensions of the viewable area on the Kindle device. ![]() ![]() Do you have illustrations meant to fill the available viewing space on a Kindle page? If so, there are a couple of things you need to know: ![]()
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