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Originally Posted by Canuck_in_Japan
I wonder if Kindle Voyage readers will have to suffer through the same tiny maps and pictures that we have to on the Aura HD now that they have a super high resolution display? Unfortunately the e-books just aren't keeping pace to the readers. Start putting high(er) resolution photos in your e-books, publishers!
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It's hard to say. Sometimes Kindles will expand small images, and maybe shrink large mages. AFAIK, stock Aura HD will not automatically expand images and does not support user initiated zoom, but Kindles always have.
Many e-books have tiny images, but I think the popularity of tablets is changing that. When I read "Wicked Bugs" and "Wicked Plants" by Amy Stewart on a 6" e-ink screen several years ago, I checked out paper versions from the library to refer to the illustrations. I recently looked at the illustrations in these on my Nook HD+ in the Kindle app, and they looked amazing. It turns out that the subtle shading on these doesn't come out well on e-ink, but at least it shows that at least some e-books have higher resolutions images. I hope that reviews start covering this aspect.
Some e-readers clip large images, so it is not just a matter of pressuring publishers to use larger images. The reading software needs to handle them, and the HTML/CSS needs to be done correctly.
I hope the awareness of this issue increases. It is really sad how needlessly bad most e-book images are.