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Originally Posted by Hitch
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?
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Yes. I understand now. I got the inches from an online converter. I realize now the size of the display depends on the screen resolution. Thanks.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.
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It's a Kindle 7 Touch. screen resolution 600X800
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Originally Posted by Hitch
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.
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I'm talking about my ebooks that I've revised and I want the updated version on my Kindle ereader from KDP. The old way of getting them was emailing KDP and saying, 'please send the updated version of my ebook to my Kindle.' Now I can go to my Amazon account. Use the dropdown to go to Manage Content and Devices. Then under the Content tab (screenshot 21), I can select a book and then use the Deliver button to send the book to my Kindle. That is what I was thinking was the Whispersync delivery.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
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?
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Hopefully I already answered this. On the Manage Your Content and Devices, I can either 1) Click on the Deliver button and choose to have the file delivered to my Kindle (I don't know how they do it but that's all I have to do.) 2) Choose to download the file to my computer and then sideload it to my Kindle.
And this isn't even the problem issue. Because all of the previewing I've done makes the image size look good. (I wouldn't publish it if the images were tiny.) It's only after I click on the Publish button in KDP and check the books the next day when Amazon sends me an email saying your book is live, that when I get the book via the "Deliver" button that the image size is small and when I get the book from downloading (in Manage Your Content and Devices) and then sideloading to my Kindle that the image is the "right" size.
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Hitch, granted, this has become a labyrinthine, but ultimately, I just have two questions.
1) Am I right to be entering the image size (screenshot 20) with the Height and Width quantities specified (the highlighted stuff). (as opposed to leaving that info out eg:screenshot 22)
2) What is the optimal size for backmatter cover images?
Thanks