What size photos for iPod?

I'm about to load some photo images onto my iPod but don't know where to start for re-sizing them for this purpose.
What's a good size to use for photos on an Ipod? I assume I would use a jpg file format.
Thanks for your advice!

Here's something that is very odd. I took two photographs and sized them to 640x480 pixels. As level 10 JPGs, the resulting files were 196kb and 116kb. Loaded them onto my iPod Touch. An iPod cache folder was created and I found the two files that it created for my photos. Each file was 656kb!
How can you take a 196kb file and a 116kb file and make it 656kb? What the heck is this software doing to these image files?

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