Creating webfile for upload to Kindle

[Paddy Ryan]

I have written an e-Book - I took great care to make sure my photos were all 1920x1200. Whenever I create either a web file or a filtered web file from my 2010 word doc it saves two copies of each image - one low res - the other high res - the difference is stunning - a 1.2 mb file becomes 56K. I want folks to be able to zoom in when using their Kindle and I am totally uncertain as to which one Kindle will use - but in view of the fact my 335 mb upload becomes 17 megabytes I have a fair idea. Does anyone know what is happening here?

A thorough net search has not revealed anyone else asking this or an allied question. I did find out that when Word saves RTF files it saves two copies - one in the original res and the other low res ...