{"id":377,"date":"2013-06-23T17:27:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/?p=377"},"modified":"2013-06-24T16:16:44","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T23:16:44","slug":"taking-screenshots-of-ereaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/?p=377","title":{"rendered":"Taking screenshots of eReaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<div aria-live=\"polite\" id=\"soliloquy-container-410_1\" class=\"soliloquy-container soliloquy-transition-fade soliloquy-theme-classic\" style=\"max-width:300px;max-height:600px;\"><ul id=\"soliloquy-410_1\" class=\"soliloquy-slider soliloquy-slides soliloquy-wrap soliloquy-clear\"><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-1 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-411\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-1\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/screen_shot-169491.gif\" alt=\"screen_shot-16949\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Kindle 1<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-2 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-412\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-2\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/screen_shot-559921.gif\" alt=\"screen_shot-55992\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Kindle 2<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-3 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-413\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-3\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/screen_shot-91411.gif\" alt=\"screen_shot-9141\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Kindle 3<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-4 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-414\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-4\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/screenshot_2013_06_23T15_04_15-06591.png\" alt=\"screenshot_2013_06_23T15_04_15-0659\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Kindle 4 (Paperwhite)<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-5 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-427\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-5\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_3010c.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3010c\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Kindle Fire<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-6 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-417\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-6\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_2987c1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2987c\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Kobo Aura<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-7 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-418\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-7\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/000c1.jpg\" alt=\"000c\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Kobo Touch<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-8 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-416\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-8\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screenshot_2013-06-23-16-24-45.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_2013-06-23-16-24-45\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Kobo Arc<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-9 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-419\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-9\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/001c1.jpg\" alt=\"001c\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Nook 1<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-10 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-420\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-10\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/13-06-23-11.jpg\" alt=\"13-06-23-1\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Nook Color<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-11 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-421\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-11\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screenshot_2013-06-23-16-43-441.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_2013-06-23-16-43-44\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Nook HD<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-12 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-422\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-12\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Screenshot_2013-06-23-16-53-18c1.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot_2013-06-23-16-53-18c\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Nook HD+<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-13 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-423\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/000c2.jpg\" alt=\"000c\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">Nook Simple Touch Glow<\/div><\/div><\/li><li aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"soliloquy-item soliloquy-item-14 soliloquy-image-slide\" draggable=\"false\" style=\"list-style:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"soliloquy-image-424\" class=\"soliloquy-image soliloquy-image-14\" src=\"https:\/\/unclogged.rl-imaging.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_2995c1.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_2995c\" \/><div class=\"soliloquy-caption\"><div class=\"soliloquy-caption-inside\">eMatic EB105B<\/div><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div><noscript><style type=\"text\/css\">#soliloquy-container-410_1{opacity:1}<\/style><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">I often take screenshots of my stable of eReaders to show clients how documents actually appear. Software previewers are often wrong to very wrong. Also they do not show the actual user experience, like menus and links, on the device. The one problem with device built-in screen captures is that they show you what the device thinks it is displaying (the contents of the framebuffer) instead of the display quality. What you actually see is affected by many factors &#8211; lighting, eInk ghosting, brightness, etc. Photographing all of the different screen technologies properly is very difficult.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many websites show how to take screenshots for specific devices but not all of them in one place, nor where the screenshots live on the device. After you are done taking screenshots, connect the device via USB and (almost) all will present themselves as a storage device.<\/p>\n\n<table id=\"tablepress-1\" class=\"tablepress tablepress-id-1\">\n<thead>\n<tr class=\"row-1\">\n\t<th class=\"column-1\">Device<\/th><th class=\"column-2\">Method<\/th><th class=\"column-3\">Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"row-striping row-hover\">\n<tr class=\"row-2\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Kindle 1<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Shift-Alt-g<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">There is no confirmation that a screenshot is taken. My K1 has an SD card which mounts as Untitled. GIFs are in Untitled (root directory), named screen_shot-xxxx.gif.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-3\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Kindle 2<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Shift-Alt-g<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Screen flashes once. GIFs are in Kindle \u2192 documents, named screen_shot-xxxx.gif.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-4\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Kindle 3<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Shift-Alt-g<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Screen flashes once, then again a few seconds later once the capture is complete. GIFs are in Kindle \u2192 documents, named screen_shot-xxxx.gif.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-5\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Kindle Paperwhite<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Touch bottom-left and upper-right of screen at the same time<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Screen flashes once. PNGs are in Kindle (root directory), named screenshot_YYYY_MM_DDTHH_MM_SS-xxxx.png. For every screenshot here is a wininfo_*.txt that contains xwininfo output (object tree debug information).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-6\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Kindle Fire (1st gen)<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Found these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/mobile\/how-to-take-a-screenshot-on-any-kindle-fire\/\">How to take a screenshot on any Kindle Fire<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/howto.cnet.com\/8301-11310_39-57348356-285\/how-to-take-screenshots-on-the-kindle-fire\/\">How to take screenshots on the Kindle Fire<\/a> but have not tried them yet. Photographed instead.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-7\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Nook (1st gen)<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">I use a flatbed scanner which unfortunately does not capture the color LCD very well.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-8\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Nook Color<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Nook key + Volume down<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Camera icon will appear in notification area (lower left) when capture is complete. PNGs are in media \u2192 Screenshots, named yy-mm-dd-x.png.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-9\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Nook&nbsp;Simple&nbsp;Touch\/Glow<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Both use an infrared grid touchscreen which seems to be overloaded by the flatbed scanner\u2019s light. The touchscreen is unresponsive for several seconds after a scan. I now photograph rather than scan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-10\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Nook HD\/HD+<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Nook key + Volume down<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Animation showing slightly reduced version of screen appears plus a notification that the \u201cScreenshot was captured\u201d. PNGs are in MyNOOK \u2192 Pictures \u2192 Screenshots, named Screenshot_YYYY\u2013MM\u2013DD\u2013HH\u2013MM\u2013SS.png.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-11\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Kobo Touch<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Its infrared grid touchscreen seems to be overloaded by the flatbed scanner\u2019s light. The touchscreen is unresponsive for several seconds after a scan. I now photograph rather than scan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-12\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Kobo Aura<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Its infrared grid touchscreen seems to be overloaded by the flatbed scanner\u2019s light. Touchscreen was unresponsive until I rebooted with the paperclip reset button. I now photograph rather than scan.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-13\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Kobo Arc<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Power + Volume down<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Screen flashes and shutter sound plays once the capture is complete. The device does not appear as a storage device. You need to run Android File Transfer. PNGs are in Pictures \u2192 Screenshots, named Screenshot_YYYY\u2013MM\u2013DD\u2013HH\u2013MM\u2013SS.png.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-14\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">eMatic EB105B<br \/>\neMatic EB106<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">No detectable mechanism. Photographed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-15\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">iPhone\/iPad<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Power + Home<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Screen flashes and shutter sound plays once the capture is complete. PNGs are in standard camera roll. Use Preview to import.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-16\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Android&nbsp;4.0&nbsp;(ICS) and above<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Power + Volume down<\/span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">Appears in gallery.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"row-17\">\n\t<td class=\"column-1\">Microsoft&nbsp;Surface&nbsp;RT<\/td><td class=\"column-2\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Windows + Volume down<span><\/td><td class=\"column-3\">The touch Windows logo on the front face, not on the keyboard.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>. I often take screenshots of my stable of eReaders to show clients how documents actually appear. Software previewers are often wrong to very wrong. Also they do not show the actual user experience, like menus and links, on the device. 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