Thread: Epub file sizes
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Old 07-28-2008, 01:18 PM   #6
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Now that I know that Epub files can be "unzip", I would imagine that the Epub files use a variant of the LZW compression. With it, typically large files compress more than smaller files due to the nature of the compression methodology. Therefore if the individual chapters are compressed individually, there will be (normally) less compression than if the entire book is compressed as a unit.
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