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Old 09-14-2010, 09:30 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by TreborPugly View Post
One of the great things about ebooks is how little space they can take up. I'm working on creating a nice ebook library for my daughter to use on her XO, using FBReader as the book reader. XO's only have 1 GB of built in flash memory for both OS and storage, and a SD card reader, which I'm using for the library. I have some spare 1 GB flash cards, which is sufficient for a pretty big ebook library, if they are efficiently stored.

I have alot of old ebooks that are zipped text files, which are nicely lean, but don't have metadata. I've been adding these into calibre, and I think I'd like to convert everything to epub since FBReader likes epub and gets the metadata out fine. I think FBReader can even search for any kind of file inside a zip archive, so I could zip them up by author for storage on the SD card. However, I want to get rid of non-text stuff, like cover images, or images generated to display meta-data.

I don't have any strong preference on whether or not I should be working to keep my calibre library itself lean, or if I can just create a collection that is lean - I'm open to any and all suggestions on ways to my goal of a collection of epub files without any images, taking up as little space as possible.

In case you couldn't tell, I'm pretty new to Calibre, but I do understand that the calibre library is not to be messed with outside of the program itself, and I shouldn't concern myself with what the library looks like or how much space it takes up, since I can save to disk however I want.
However, am I correct that if I want epubs without images, I have to generate them all that way first before I do a save to disk?

Thanks in advance!
-Treb.
I have the entire Baen free library and Much Much More with covers and internal illustrations.
1000+ (mostly EPUB, no Manga) books: = 761MB
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