Displaying panoramic pictures on kindle

[jt911]

When I found out the new kindle had great contrast in sunlight I ordered one asap because I think it could be a good platform for testing out black and white maps. I'm a grad student studying sketches of mountains, the sorts of illustrations that hikers use to tell them the names of peaks nearby.

They are normally black and white, although one style I've been working on uses grayscale, so the 16 shades of grey that kindle supports is just great.

I was pleased to discover it supports a "secret" pictures folder, and I experimented a bit with this.

I'd like to know, what do you think the best way to display panoramic images is? I think there's a setting that allows panning to open the next image, so in theory the users of my hiking maps should be able to pan left or right, in full screen, and each pan brings up a new image. That would make them think they're panning one giant image, but actually they'd just be telling kindle to go from one tile to the next.

Do you think that would work? What is the best file format for the pictures folder, ie the one that entails least processing? And what about dimensions? I resized my files to 800 x 600 but what happens if you try to open bigger images than that?

If anyone has spend time messing around with the hidden pictures features I'd really love to hear your thoughts on my project. Thanks

[911jason]

I use Photoshop to export 600x800 images in 16-color grayscale PNG format. Couldn't you just take your panoramic image, resize the height to 800 pixels, then break it up into 600 pixel wide slices? Then as they hit next page or prev page it will have the effect of "panning" through the image.

That's the only way I can think of to make something like what you're looking for.