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Originally Posted by Jellby
Since the Kindles do not read the ePub format directly, is that behaviour due to something in the ePub format or to some bug/feature of whatever converter is used to read it in the Kindles?
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Oh no, it's simply the dimensions of the Kindle screen. A "normal" vertical photograph is 8x10 inches, the size of a traditional sheet of printing paper. On the Fire, such an image has room for a caption below it, because the Fire is comparatively skinny. The older e-ink Kindles (and I think the newer ones as well) by contrast are fatter. 800x1000 pixels would just about fill the entire screen, pushing the caption to the next page.
This can work havoc in books with multiple images. I once read a library e-book in which for five or six consecutive pages there was a caption at the top of the page and a photograph below, and in each case the caption referred to the photo on the previous page. (Obviously my dodge of working the caption information into the preceding paragraph wouldn't have headed off that calamity, but it does in the books I publish, which typically have one image per chapter.)