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Originally Posted by blue_skies
I totally agree! I used to often try to read my Amazon purchased ebooks on my computer using the Kindle app, and the images were so ridiculously tiny and low resolution they were worthless. It was especially frustrating for non-fiction books like those with fashion illustrations or interior design photos... with teeny-tiny photos. I could never understand why they didn't just use nice high resolution photos.
The various devices should be able to figure out how to display a higher resolution photo rather than defaulting to worthless low resolution photos. I had to return books because the photos were so awful.
I made up a couple of books for my own use and always used the largest photos I could, and they never failed to display on my Kindle Keyboard. I'm not sure what the difference is in the case where a previous poster here said large photos won't display on Kindle devices. Maybe they were way bigger than the large photos I was using. Still, no reason to use poor quality. Fix the eReader software instead!
Publishers and developers really need to fix this.
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It's not a problem with the software on the Kindle. It's a problem with the publishers using low resolution images. And as for maps, sometimes they need to rotate the map as the screen isn't wide enough so it needs to be rotated to be in landscape.
Readers cannot decide to display higher resolution images if they do not exist in the eBook. The best you can do is stretch the image to make it larger on screen. That doesn't always work as doing so makes the image fuzzy.
What I do sometimes is to try to find a larger map and use that it put in the eBook. Can't always do that, but sometimes it works.