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Originally Posted by dvpzoey
Ok, let me rephrase my question.
Let's take example of Kindle Paperwhite. It has a screen res. of 1448 x 1078 pixels (6" display).
For this device, cover res. should be at least 1448 x 1078 pixels.
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There's no way to reference a member in a post so that they know about it. The best you can do is give Karma to someone by clicking on the Karma button on one of their posts that has been helpful (or amusing).
Bear in mind that the picture, unless it exactly matches the pixels of the display, will be getting resized by the (often low powered) processor of the ebook reader. For paperwhite it's even worse, as a colour image will be rendered as greyscale by that same low-power processor.
If you're only worried about how they look on the paperwhite, do some tests, and double-check that the size you quote won't get resized. Then create images of exactly that pixel count, and manually convert it to 16-level greyscale, using a high contrast filter in something like photoshop. You might also need to tweak the colour->greyscale conversion filter if there are some colours which need to be distinguished but come out at the same greylevel with the default.
But honestly, I doubt you'll see much difference from just havinga large pixel colour JPEG. So long as the cover is 1000 pixels in the long direction, I doubt you'll notice. Do some tests and find out if you can see the difference, and whether it' matters to you if you can!