Thread: What is the viewable resolution of the K3?
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Old 08-28-2010, 11:19 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by bfollowell View Post
I've also heard that the Kindle automatically stretches an image to fill all dimensions of the Kindle screen while not maintaining the original aspect ratio. Since the Kindle screen is quite a bit wider in relation to it's height that a typical paperback or hardback book, this would give a stretched, "fat" cover image.
This might be the case for cover images. For images inside the ebook, images are magnified by default up to 2x in size but the aspect ratio is maintained.

Note that for a MOBI, the cover is separate from the ebook reading flow and is only visible when reading the ebook on a Kindle by selecting the cover in a menu. Some MOBIs also repeat the cover image at the start of the ebook flow.
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