Amazon Kindle How-to Series – Loading and Viewing Pictures on Your Kindle E-book Reader

admin — Sun, 24 May 2009 23:03:53 +0000

Michael Piston asked:

Your new Kindle wireless reading device is great for holding e-books and audio books but did you also know you can display your pictures on your Kindle? Keep in mind that the Kindle has a gray scale display, not color, so the quality of your pictures won't be great. But, despite that it might be nice to have a few of your favorite pictures for quick viewing on your Kindle.

The process for loading and viewing pictures on your Kindle is not entirely intuitive, but it's not difficult for you to master. Follow the steps below and you'll have more than just books on your Kindle.

1. Get a collection of pictures you want to load on your Kindle. These can be color images but remember that your Kindle will display them as gray scale images.

2. Use a photo editing program to reduce the size of your images before loading them into your Kindle. The Kindle screen can display a picture at a maximum size of 550 pixels high x 450 pixels wide. There is no sense loading large images - which will take-up a large amount of your Kindle's memory - if the image size is limited.

3. Attach the Kindle's USB cable to both your Kindle and your computer.

4. Once the screen letting you know your Kindle is attached to your computer via USB appears you can double-click on your computer's "My Computer" icon.

5. Your Kindle should appear as one of the disk drives attached to your computer.

6. Double-click on your Kindle drive. You will see several folders. One for Audible books, one for documents, and one for music.

7. Add a new folder to your Kindle called "pictures".

8. Open the new "pictures" folder and create one sub-folder for each of the groups of pictures you wish to load onto your Kindle. For example "Moms Birthday" might be one folder and "Summer Vacation 2009" might be another. These folder names will appear on your Kindle's Home Screen so make them descriptive.

9. Open each new sub-folder then copy the pictures you've collected into their appropriate folder.

10. When you are done take a look at your Kindle's screen. If the USB activity indicator at the bottom right side of the screen is not showing any activity you can remove the USB cable from your Kindle.

11. Go to the Home Screen of your Kindle. Press the "ALT" key and the "Z" key at the same time to refresh your Kindle's list of e-books. The screen will blink a few time - when it stops use your "Next Page", "Prev Page" buttons to locate the new picture folders you created in Step 8.

12. Scroll to the picture folder you want to open then press the scroll wheel to select it. The folder will open and in a moment or two your first picture will appear. You can move through your pictures by pressing the "Next" or "Prev" page buttons.

Congratulations! You now know how to make using your Kindle even more enjoyable by being able to carry special pictures with you in your Kindle wireless reading device.

For more complete How-To information, including screen shots of the process described above visit the web address in the resource box below.

Happy reading!

Kindle: Amazon's 6" Wireless Reading Device (Latest Generation)