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tigermind · 11-25-2012, 06:25 PM

Howdy all,

I'm making my own e-books, and have encountered an odd problem that shows up with some images on my old Kindle. I'll try my best to describe what happens: The image will take up the right amount of space on the screen, but a portion of the bottom of the image is missing, and the same amount of the image is taken from the top and duplicated—so, say, about the top sixth of the image will be reduplicated on top, while the bottom sixth is missing. BUT, if i zoom in on the image, it then shows up correctly.

I've tried deleting and reinstalling the ebook file itself, and deleting and reinstalling the images into the ebook itself (i use Sigil to write the ebooks in epub format, and then Calibre to convert to mobi), but that hasn't made a difference. I've noticed it only happens to jpegs, but not to /all/ jpegs. And it's only a problem on my 3G Kindle keyboard; newer Kindles, as well as the Kindle apps for Mac and iPhone, don't seem to have any problem.

Has anybody ever seen a problem like this? Any ideas what might be causing it?

11-25-2012, 06:25 PM	#1
tigermind Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Nov 2012 Device: none	wonky images on older Kindle Howdy all, I'm making my own e-books, and have encountered an odd problem that shows up with some images on my old Kindle. I'll try my best to describe what happens: The image will take up the right amount of space on the screen, but a portion of the bottom of the image is missing, and the same amount of the image is taken from the top and duplicated—so, say, about the top sixth of the image will be reduplicated on top, while the bottom sixth is missing. BUT, if i zoom in on the image, it then shows up correctly. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the ebook file itself, and deleting and reinstalling the images into the ebook itself (i use Sigil to write the ebooks in epub format, and then Calibre to convert to mobi), but that hasn't made a difference. I've noticed it only happens to jpegs, but not to /all/ jpegs. And it's only a problem on my 3G Kindle keyboard; newer Kindles, as well as the Kindle apps for Mac and iPhone, don't seem to have any problem. Has anybody ever seen a problem like this? Any ideas what might be causing it?