Preview of Children's Picture Book in Kindle E-Reader

Kindle Create can show a preview what an e-book will look like in a a tablet, smartphone, or Kindle E-Reader. The E-Reader has a grayscale display, so my pictures will be viewed in all of their black and white glory.

The question is, why am I spending time with an e-reader when my goal is to publish the print version first? There are several reasons. The first is that Kindle Create converts the InDesign PDF into a series of pages that are fun to scroll through. I can also see which images can be easily adapted to a future e-book, and which will need more work. This particular image works with both the square print format or the HD e-book format, though the position of the text will have to be tweaked.

The original image without text…

The page, with text, as it will appear when viewed with a Kindle E-Reader…

Two versions of a page in progress for the children's book

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I finished the drawing I started yesterday, the drawing of the two boys reading a comic book. I replaced the ominous cat with two cute mice, moved Buddy Butterfly’s antennae out of the way and added some hatching. Today it was Photoshop to the rescue.

I moved Buddy’s antennae to give the mice more focus. He’s got an extra pair before I took the image to Photoshop

Still more cleaning up to do…