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Originally Posted by pdurrant
No. Amazon Search inside is a scheme for PAPER books (as mentioned in my previous comment), not ebooks.
If you want to publish ebooks through Amazon, you just need to submit once through the kdp.amazon.com site.
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The web page at that URL does not restrict the size of images submitted for publishing. It just says that "the Kindle File format" (mobi?) has a limit of 127KB pictures (previous 63KB). We are discussing PDF files here, in which full-page images are poorly compressed and very large (byte-wise), especially when created with a "PDF printer driver". This is why professional-created PDF files often contain vector-artwork (algorithmically rendered from a display list) instead of bitmap photos.
If amazon squeezes a full-page JPEG file down to 127KB to fit it into a .mobi file, it will lose so much detail as to make embedded text unreadable in most cases.
Comparing the maximum image size allowed inside a .mobi file to "out of memory" errors when displaying a PDF file is comparing "apples to oranges", so not relevant to solving this problem.
EDIT: Many of my PDF files contain large schematics (unfortunately, usually bitmaps instead of vector art). Compressing those too much would render the electronic component labels unreadable. They tend to be very large files even when they do not have many pages. I do not have any PDF files that follow the amazon .mobi image size limit guidelines.
UPDATE: Here is a possible SOLUTION to this "PDF out of memory" problem: Many PDF files are designed for high PRINT quality. For onscreen viewing (especially on a Kindle), it would be worthwhile to shrink the PDF file using a "PDF Optimizer". There are many apps that can optimize PDF files, from expensive commercial apps, to free apps such as linux "pdfopt". These PDF optimizers can reduce the amount of disk space needed to hold a PDF file AND can also reduce the amount of RAM needed to display the file.
There are other PDF reader apps that do a better job of memory management and may not have this problem. Unfortunately, you may need to jailbreak your kindle to use them.