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Originally Posted by Toxaris
The limit of one xhtml file is around 300kb uncompressed, let's say 265 kb to be save. If you keep your files to that limit, you should be fine. Most people here will split the files at each chapter. There are books with chapters larger than 300kb, but not that many.
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Splitting the content at different Chapters is already done, since it naturally mimicks the design most books follow. I just wanted to have a contingency plan for those documents that have larger - or no - Chapters, which currently is to cut in front of elements whose size combined with the size of the preceeding elements exceed 256kb (thanks for the size info. when I finished the epub part yesterday I initially set the size to 128kb since I noticed it not working with larger files and up to now hadn't taken the time to pin down the exact size).
That being said, please don't get me wrong - it was never my intention to always store content in one big file. Apart from the obvious Chapter pagebreak, it's also good practice to do it for technical considerations - navigating (i.e. directly jumping to specific points) imposes less constraints on the readers hardware if the navigation points are located in smaller files. Which is a good enough reason for me.
But as always there's an exception to the rule: the book Flowers for Algernon from Daniel Keyes contains no pagebreaks at all (I only own the hardcopy, though I'd be in interested how they'd manage in a digital version - if they'd do it that way at all), since the book is organized as a diary of the protagonist.
My intention was to cover those cases as well - if only just on principle alone
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