what image size for Kindle Book?

titani · 08-19-2014, 07:46 AM

I am publishing a Kindle book that is mostly images. One image would fill the whole screen. What image size should I use to enable best view on Kindle device and smartphones and iPad tablets?

rebl · 08-19-2014, 10:14 AM

Different kindle devices (Fire, eInk?) / smarphones / tablets have different screen sizes and might support natively different formats. I don't think an absolute image size would fit them all. Maybe use a format that would be able to resample/zoom the image to whole screen but I'm not sure which one would work.
From my experience, Kindle 6" non-touch automatically "zooms" pdf's even if I create a certain page size (such as 8.5 x 11.4 cm or even 8 x 11 cm) but this happens to text. If I have a page of that size and have some text in a corner, Kindle seems to like (and I hate this) to zoom the text to fill the whole screen. That could work for you if it does it with pictures too - you wound't need to care about the target device screen size (only ratio W/H).

HarryT · 08-20-2014, 03:44 AM

Moved to the "Kindle Formats" forum, which is the correct place for such questions.

08-19-2014, 07:46 AM	#1
titani Member Posts: 10 Karma: 132 Join Date: Aug 2014 Device: epub	what image size for Kindle Book? I am publishing a Kindle book that is mostly images. One image would fill the whole screen. What image size should I use to enable best view on Kindle device and smartphones and iPad tablets?

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08-19-2014, 10:14 AM	#2
rebl r.eads e.njoys b.ooks lol Posts: 76 Karma: 580748 Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: It's time to get this Book a Rest Device: Kindle 4 NT	Different kindle devices (Fire, eInk?) / smarphones / tablets have different screen sizes and might support natively different formats. I don't think an absolute image size would fit them all. Maybe use a format that would be able to resample/zoom the image to whole screen but I'm not sure which one would work. From my experience, Kindle 6" non-touch automatically "zooms" pdf's even if I create a certain page size (such as 8.5 x 11.4 cm or even 8 x 11 cm) but this happens to text. If I have a page of that size and have some text in a corner, Kindle seems to like (and I hate this) to zoom the text to fill the whole screen. That could work for you if it does it with pictures too - you wound't need to care about the target device screen size (only ratio W/H).

08-20-2014, 03:44 AM	#3
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,544 Karma: 93383043 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Moved to the "Kindle Formats" forum, which is the correct place for such questions.

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