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Cephas Atheos · 09-07-2012, 07:43 PM

G'day everyone,

I have a fairly large library of DRM-free personal ebook files, but I'm trying to figure out the "best" format to import into calibre when more than one source format is available.

Typically, I have duplicates in .htmlz or SVG/Zip formats. The ZIP format is always a much larger file, but when comparing the files within calibre, there doesn't seem to be any major visible differences, at least in terms of readability, images, and so on.

Eventually, all of these will be converted to PDF and plain text for archival purposes.

My inclination as a restorator/archiver is to use the source format with the larger data size (in other words, the zip format), but is there any point to me doing this? In other words, is the zip format just a less efficient storage alternative to the htmlz format, and (all else being equal) they contain essentially the same (identical) core data?

Thanks for wading through this... Any and all comments and suggestions are most welcome.

-Pete
P.S. Yes, I'm too lazy to perform a byte-by-byte comparison of the contents of each format, although I think I have the tools to sort of do that...

09-07-2012, 07:43 PM	#1
Cephas Atheos Member Posts: 11 Karma: 50 Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: In the hills around Melbourne, Australia Device: Kindle DX	Silly question about preferred formats G'day everyone, I have a fairly large library of DRM-free personal ebook files, but I'm trying to figure out the "best" format to import into calibre when more than one source format is available. Typically, I have duplicates in .htmlz or SVG/Zip formats. The ZIP format is always a much larger file, but when comparing the files within calibre, there doesn't seem to be any major visible differences, at least in terms of readability, images, and so on. Eventually, all of these will be converted to PDF and plain text for archival purposes. My inclination as a restorator/archiver is to use the source format with the larger data size (in other words, the zip format), but is there any point to me doing this? In other words, is the zip format just a less efficient storage alternative to the htmlz format, and (all else being equal) they contain essentially the same (identical) core data? Thanks for wading through this... Any and all comments and suggestions are most welcome. -Pete P.S. Yes, I'm too lazy to perform a byte-by-byte comparison of the contents of each format, although I think I have the tools to sort of do that...