Thread: 290kb limitation in Sony readers
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Old 09-24-2010, 12:57 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by etienne66 View Post
That is interesting. From what I can find those are using Adobe Mobile Edition, but Adobe has not updated their "Best Practices Guide" since 2008. It still says, "Note that Adobe Digital Editions has the following limitations when running on a mobile device. If these limits are not adhered to, EPUB files will not work on supported mobile devices including the SONYŽ Reader Digital Book.

Image Size: 10MB uncompressed.
XHTML/DTBook file size: 300k uncompressed/100k compressed."

You'd think if Adobe had increased the flow size, they would have updated this document.

Etienne66
Not necessarily. Adobe might well recognize that there are quite a few readers out there that still have this limitation. They know Sony, perhaps the most popular ebook reader outside the United States has this limitation and that earlier versions of other readers do as well. You can't count on customers to take the initiative to upgrade their own firmware. Therefore, fix the limitation for the future, but still recommend adhering to the limits.

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