Images in Kindle?

Deb, when you put 'images', do them in .jpg so that you can resize them easily when you convert to Kindle. Kindle has a smaller sized format than what we normally use for our word documents. If you use the 'art and graphic' features, they are harder to convert.

Rosa

BTW, I PM you about the recent book I submitted to iBook and got rejected. Don't know why because I followed your WSO procedure. Did you get the PM? It was sent a couple of days ago.

Just make sure they're good quality images though because the pixelated ones turn out horrible, believe me.

Besides .jpg file, what size images are recommended? I'm in the "how to"
market and images are almost a must. And how should I handle diagrams and charts?
Thanks!

That's another very good point there.

In Kindle, they are black and white.


The above is old info......

4/27/2013

Now you should design all your kindle books in color because of the amazon fire as well as people reading kindle books on other devices such as ipads, iphones, androids, etc.

All of my images are now done in color.

I´m not sure about comics... would have to play with it a bit.

For one of my books I use images of about 250px x 250px, saved an jpg and inserted in the document via the insert feature of word. For the other (full width) I went to 800px wide, and whatever needed for height, same procedure.

Also it is important to center them and use inline position. If you don´t, when you make the web page you have floating images. Not nice.

If you download the Kindle previewer, and compile the mobi file locally, you will have a fairly good idea about how it looks for the main kindle devices.

I saw a recommendation that the images should not exceed 450x650 -- I cannot remember the inch dimensions of that image though, since I focused on the pixel size myself.

My last Kindle book was a children's book. I found the process of uploading the book painful, because with over 30 images in the book, half the time when I uploaded the book, the images were broken on upload.

I even went in and shrunk the size of my images, and the problem continued.

Once I exceeded about 20 images in the book, getting the book to upload with images intact took a couple of days.

Now that I have done an image book, I should go back and read Deborah Drums's product about doing kid's books again. By applying the information in her product to my personal experience, I might be able to better learn what she was trying to teach me.

Ahh... word re-size the images, so 600 wide is good enough. Good to know.

Thank you Paul, I read about it on your site. But how an image of this size (600x800) will look on larger devices as Kindle fire that has a resolution of 1024x600 pixels? In their latest Kindle Publishing Guidelines, Amazon recommends to design the content to maintain this aspect ratio, if possible. (see section 4.3.3: http://kindlegen.s3.amazonaws.com/Am...Guidelines.pdf )

Bill, are you talking about Debora's "Kids Kindle Magnets"? If yes, I own a copy of this guide, but being overwhelmed by running projects, I decided to read it later and forgot Shame on me I'm going to read it right now, thanks for reminding.

But anyways, preparing children books can be tough experience if you do it for the first time. In the same section 4.3.3 of the Kindle Publishing Guidelines, Amazon recommends using images with aspect ratio of 2048x1200 for magnification purpose. But now I'm curious, how much is a delivery of such image heavy book???

I have one more question. When preparing a children book where you want to put one image with a few sentences on a separate page, would you use page breaks to separate pages? What if a reader scale the font size and one or two lines of the text begins overflow to the next page? It might look ugly, right? May be making the text a part of the image would be a better option?