Thread: Size of mobi much larger than epub?
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Old 06-15-2011, 05:41 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by comet View Post
Hallo,

I buy books at o'reilly, and there I get the same title in different formats. I observed that for one book I bought the epub for my Sony has a size of 4.7MB, the mobi for my kindle 17.1MB! What is the reason of this large difference?
Unpack them both and find out. It's probably due to images, although I don't really see why.

It's also just possible that the Mobi also has a copy of the ePub stuffed at the end of it.

The ePub you can unpack just by unzipping it. The Mobi you'll need the Mobipocket Unpack script from here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...36&postcount=5
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