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Old 02-15-2012, 01:50 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by jgaiser View Post
Sure, if all you want is just one or two books on the CD. But if you're looking for a series, it makes *more* sense to download the zipped files which will save a bit of bandwidth (most of the files are text and compress nicely with zip).
Actually none of the e-book formats compress nicely, as the format specifications already integrate compression:

828K ../Miles_Errant.epub 824K Miles_Errant.epub.zip
844K ../Miles_Errant.lit 780K Miles_Errant.lit.zip
1016K ../Miles_Errant.lrf 992K Miles_Errant.lrf.zip
1,1M ../Miles_Errant.prc 920K Miles_Errant.prc.zip
876K ../Miles_Errant.rb 876K Miles_Errant.rb.zip

Out of the provided formats only rtf and htm do compress significantly.

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