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Originally Posted by medard
For me the main reason for switching from Kindle to Sony was that digital books got really large in file size in the past months.
A year ago 300-500 kb were normal, and then 1 GB internal storage are OK.
But now the average book has 2 MB, some are even 4-16 MB. So you need external storage via SD card, at least I do.
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I'm a new Kindle ebooks buyer, but I was really surprised by the size of the files
Some epubs are heavy too, depending on the formatting, but the ones from Amazon are way heavier than them
I'll try to convert two or three books this week and I'll see if the size shrinks a little by itself. I still can use to look inside and clean things up.
I think that Amazon puts different picture sizes so the device will find the one right for it without breaking a sweat. I can't tell if in the end that's for the best (doesn't push the processor too far) or for the worst (very heavy files are resources consuming too).