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Where Are Amazon Kindle Screenshots Saved?

Kindle Paperwhite has a screen capture shortcut that's super handy, but where do those saved screenshots go after taking them? Some say internal storage, others mention the Documents folder.
2026-03-28 07:08:52
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Jaime Freeman
Jaime Freeman
Screenshots are saved as images in the main storage directory on the Kindle device, normally within a folder named ‘screenshots’ – these can be copied across to a computer by connecting the Kindle up via USB cable. A light read for short bursts would be ‘The Alpha King’s Mind-Reading Maid’, a short and sweet, fast-paced, relatively straightforward fantasy romance novel about a humble servant accidentally granted the ability to read her ruler’s mind, written in such short chapters that each can be read in a few minutes and so is ideal for reading in short breaks. I have it loaded on my Kindle app, and am currently reading it.
2026-08-05
Delilah
Delilah
The issue of finding screenshots on your Kindle(s) confused me for some time. As it happens, all screenshots taken on your Kindle are saved directly to the device in question. Thus the images will be found in the device’s internal storage, connected to a computer via USB cable. The screenshots are stored in a single folder, screenshots.

If you’re reading on your mobile device (with Kindle app installed), your screenshots will behave as they do for other apps – be saved in your device’s gallery, inside the Photos folder for example. Note that however, some publishers might disable the option for DRM-protected books, and yes, I found this out the hard way while trying to grab a quote from a bestseller that I was enjoying.
2026-03-29
Yasmin
Yasmin
The approach of Kindle screenshots depends on the platform. For e-readers the screenshots are stored in the root directory of the device, so there is no notification for them and no preview of them. Tracking down the screenshots on an e-reader with a USB cable is a bit of a tech hunt. Screenshots taken with Kindle apps on mobile devices are more convenient, but unfortunately not consistently implemented. Very occasionally I take a screenshot of a passage to put up a notice for my book club, only to discover later that the book is DRM-protected. Amazon’s implementation of saving screenshots of Kindle pages is half-baked in comparison to the rest of the Amazon services that I use, but it does work well occasionally to capture ‘whoa’ moments from a particularly good book.
2026-03-30
Grayson
Grayson
A mini-adventure, every time I look for Kindle screenshots! On e-ink Kindles, take a screenshot by pressing the power button and the volume up/down buttons simultaneously. Note that these screenshots are saved silently, and one would never know where they were saved, unless they were connected as a disk drive on a computer. There is a special folder for these saved screenshots, so obscure that it must be by design, ie. Amazon is playing with us in a game of digital hide-and-seek. I spent 20 minutes or so searching through the many, many folders until I finally found them.

Much easier to find screenshots on iOS and Android. Like any other image, screenshots are added to the camera roll. What I would like to see is a ‘screenshots’ tab added to the main navigation within the app. That would save so much time. Right now, my e-ink Kindle screenshots are stuck in the year 2015 or so. I manually transfer images from my Paperwhite to the cloud. That’s how I’ve been doing it for years.
2026-04-01
Iza Borromeo
Iza Borromeo
A pitfall to watch out for: deleting books. If you delete a downloaded book from your Kindle app or from your device, will the screenshots you made of it also be deleted? No. The screenshots are saved as independent PNG files on your device’s storage or on your computer’s hard drive. They are not connected to the book file that you downloaded. Thus, even if you delete a book from your library – for example, because it is a library book and it has expired – the screenshots you made of it will remain. Only when you run out of space on your Amazon Kindle folder will you start to delete the old screenshots. So, it’s a good idea to clean out that folder from time to time as well.
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