Is anyone else knocked out by how clear historic photos are on Kindles?

[JEV]

My bookclub recently read the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and those of us who had downloaded the e-book version, I thought, had access to much clearer photos than in the hard copy.  I guess it's the ability to enlarge, etc.  Now I'd like to get Team of Rivals and study some of those faces!

[Lursa (aka 9MMare)]

My bookclub recently read the Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, and those of us who had downloaded the e-book version, I thought, had access to much clearer photos than in the hard copy.  I guess it's the ability to enlarge, etc.  Now I'd like to get Team of Rivals and study some of those faces!

Which Kindles? Certainly not on my K3.

[JEV]

Whoa, I keep referring to my i-pad as a Kindle.  I have the ability to download books onto the amazon kindle app. on my i-pad.   My photos look terrific, but now I'm wondering if my spouse's kindle (the simple version, not the Fire, no color, nothing fancy) will get the same kind of resolution I get on the i-pad.  He wanted a small, light device that wasn't backlit. He hasn't started using it yet as it was a post-Christmas purchase. I have the early version of an i-pad and actually like the back-lighting for late night reading, but it is a bit hard on the eyes after a while.  Anyway,  I should stop referring to my i-pad as a Kindle.

[The Hooded Claw]

I agree that graphics look good on the iPad and probably on the Fire, though I have no Fire experience.

I think the K3 does better than my K2 did, but still not happy with it for illustrations.

[DH_Sayer]

I've never thought the K3 was especially bad with picture quality...although reading the Steve Jobs bio mostly on my iPhone was an eye-opener. The pictures were gorgeous. Makes me really want to get the Kindle Fire 2 (I'll wait until they sort out all the bugs).

[nogdog~6op6ou]

The grayscale Kindles can look pretty good if the image is optimized for them, which basically means applying a 16-shade grayscale palette to the image along with dithering. See http://www.ebookworm.us/2011/05/31/dithering-your-kindle-screen-saver-images/ for more info. It probably helps to stay within 600x800 pixels in order to avoid having the Kindle re-size them.

[MariaESchneider]

The grayscale Kindles can look pretty good if the image is optimized for them, which basically means applying a 16-shade grayscale palette to the image along with dithering. See http://www.ebookworm.us/2011/05/31/dithering-your-kindle-screen-saver-images/ for more info. It probably helps to stay within 600x800 pixels in order to avoid having the Kindle re-size them.

There's actually a rule about the size the graphics can be for upload.  Simpler graphics show up better and it does help if the colors are reduced (even if not to grayscale, but down to 8 bits per pixel (From the higher resolutions.)  It's very tricky getting them just right.

[history_lover]

The grayscale Kindles can look pretty good if the image is optimized for them, which basically means applying a 16-shade grayscale palette to the image along with dithering. See http://www.ebookworm.us/2011/05/31/dithering-your-kindle-screen-saver-images/ for more info. It probably helps to stay within 600x800 pixels in order to avoid having the Kindle re-size them.

Yeah, the new screensaver images on the new models look great! Good contrast, very sharp.