Thread: huge oversize zip-fb2??
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Old 02-10-2011, 04:40 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by user_none View Post
MOBI and EPUB are both compressed fomats. FB2 is not. FB2 also has to have binary data (images) base64 encoded which increases their size by about 33%.
But if you are using a reader such as the Hanlin with Coolreader as its FB2 reader you can Zip up the FB2 then rename the ZIP as <whatever>.fb2.zip and the reader will decompress and open it on-the-fly.

Mind you it might choke on one that large.

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