Does Wikipedia For Kindle Include Images And Tables?

Short and direct: usually no full images, and tables often become messy. When people talk about 'Wikipedia for Kindle' they typically mean a static text dump optimized for e-readers, so pictures are usually left out and tables get converted into plain lines of text or lose their columns. That’s mainly about file size and conversion limits rather than any hard technical ban—Kindle formats do support images and tables, but the specific Wikipedia package often won’t include them.

If you need images and clean tables, try grabbing a PDF of the article (the 'Create a book' tool or print-to-PDF works), use Kiwix for offline archives that include media, or convert with tools like Calibre and check settings to keep images. On a tablet or Kindle Fire the web/mobile Wikipedia gives the best experience; on an e-ink Kindle stick with PDFs if visuals matter. Personally I keep a tiny library of PDFs for reference and use the text-only dump when I just want quick reading without the clutter.

Quick heads-up: it depends on which version of 'Wikipedia for Kindle' you're dealing with, and how it was packaged. From my tinkering, the official Amazon snapshot that used to be offered as 'Wikipedia for Kindle' was primarily a text-only dump—images were generally stripped to keep the file size manageable and to avoid licensing hassles. Tables, which are HTML-heavy, usually don't survive the conversion intact; they often get flattened into plain text or awkwardly reflowed so columns and borders disappear. So if you open that Kindle book on a basic e-ink Kindle you'll most likely see clean paragraphs and links (if navigation was preserved), but few if any images, and tables that read like comma-separated or line-broken text.

On the technical side, Kindle formats (MOBI, AZW, KF8, EPUB for newer systems) do support images and tables in principle, but the critical thing is how the source HTML is converted. Amazon's published snapshot prioritized breadth and compactness—millions of articles—so images were a practical casualty. If a third party or a conversion tool creates a Kindle file from Wikipedia HTML or a PDF, you can get images and reasonably formatted tables, but the result depends heavily on the converter (Calibre, custom scripts, or tools like Kiwix). Kiwix's ZIM archives, for example, can include all media; but exporting from ZIM to a Kindle-friendly format may still require extra steps to keep pictures and complex table layouts intact.

If you want visuals and neat tables, my go-to approach is either grab a PDF (Wikipedia's 'Create a book' or print-to-PDF for specific articles preserves images/tables well) and send that to my Kindle, or use Kiwix on a tablet/phone where images are supported natively. For deep reference work where charts matter, I usually ditch the plain Kindle snapshot and keep a PDF or use an app that handles the ZIM files. It’s a little extra effort, but worth it when an image or table is actually the point—otherwise the text-only snapshot is great for light offline reading, and it's surprisingly fast on e-ink devices.