[Hitch]

Originally Posted by Gregg Bell

Thanks Hitch. There is no cascading CSS in my ebooks. (And for clarification's sake, the "tiny" images display in my 6" Kindle Touch as .625" by 1". screenshot 34) All my back matter images (except for my author photo, which is 325px by 244px) are 200px by 300 px. 200 pixels is 2.08" and 300 pixels is 3.125". If displayed at their full size, how would those images be tiny on any Kindles? It seems to me 200px by 300px would be too big on a 6" Kindle Touch and just about right size on a ten inch tablet. (These are just backmatter images of covers of my other ebooks. screenshot 50 is of a "right" size image--actual size of 1.25" by 1.75")

Inches are utterly irrelevant, in the way that you're using them. Your images are displaying pixel-for-pixel, on the devices, except when instructed otherwise. If memory serves, the touch has the old 600x800 resolution, is that right? That would mean that 200pixels would be 1/3rd of the width of the screen, 25% of the height. Your coding, per your screenshots, (which I can't see when I reply, which is seriously annoying) says something like 300px high, I believe. That, then, is how it displays, period.

On an HD Kindle, which can have a screen resolution of, say, 1024 px wide on a Paperwhite, 200pixels in width is going to be ~1/5th of the screen, and tiny. Understand?

I'm not sure what you're doing, here: "200 pixels is 2.08" and 300 pixels is 3.125" or where you got it from or what you're thinking? 200px is what I mentioned, above, if I have the right generation of the device, the 600x800.

Even the images that display bigger and look right are not displayed as 2.08" by 3.125". At least not on my 6" Touch Kindle where they are displayed as 1.25" by 1.75." If they displayed as 2.08" by 3.125" they would take up more than half the screen and be too big (in my opinion anyway).

An added (mind bending) complication. (Now all this refers to updated versions of my ebooks I'm delivering from Amazon's Manage Your Contents and Devices "Content" tab to my 6" Touch Kindle via Whispersnyc.)

What I've found is that when I download, as opposed to using the Whispersync, the actual file of the updated ebook to my Downloads folder and then hook up a USB cable and upload the file to my Kindle, the images display larger (1.25" by 1.75") and "right" size, if you will.

What are you talking about here? Vis-a-vis "whispersynch," I'm not sure what you're talking about. Are you talking about copies of your for-sale books that you're downloading from the KDP, as your purchases? Or copies of your books that you've revised, that you think you're sideloading, or what? Can you please clarify exactly what you're doing? You should not see any difference in the display of a purchased book, no matter how it gets to your Kindle, if it's sent from Amazon. If, however, you are talking about the difference between how your revised book looks, in how YOU send it to a Kindle, that's explicable.

It seems that, at least on my Kindle, the Whispersyncing may be sending the .625" X 1" image sizes for some reason. (Why, I have no idea.)

Perhaps it's just me, but I don't understand what you mean, in terms of the difference, when you say "whispersynch." Are you trying to say that if you manually download the file, from Manage Your Content and Devices, it looks different than if you "synch" it from the device itself? (As you can tell, I never use the myriad cute "functions" that Amazon uses to describe "move file from Amazon to Kindle." This includes the falsely-named "wifi" nonsense.) My next question would be, okay, once you have the file on your computer, how do you get it to the device? Be very specific in how you answer, because the transmission method CAN be problematic and cause differences in image appearance. You don't mean that faux WiFi thing, on the File Browser, do you?

Could it be that my images with the height and width information specified (screenshot 20) are actually being displayed properly on regular first time purchases?

This, I can answer, and the answer is no. First, second, re-downloads, doesn't matter. They'll get the same file, assuming that they asked for the revised file. Otherwise, they'll always get the version that existed when they bought it.

Please clarify EXACTLY what you are doing, in the download option, and how you get it on the device after you've downloaded it, and confirm what you mean when you use the term "whispersynch." Whispersynch has to do with the audible books--switching back and forth between the Kindle book and the Audible version, so you are badly confusing me.

Hitch