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Originally Posted by Ripplinger
If all you're doing is settings tags as you want and the publication date to the original date of the paper version, instead of the date the ebook was published, that's easily done in Calibre through the Edit Metadata option. That's Calibre's metadata files.
As far as I know that information is not within the epub itself in any of the files. That extra info is always downloaded from other sources such as Amazon, Goodreads, etc.
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I know Calibre can do it using it's database, but I want it to be in the EPUB itself. That way, I never have to set anything in Calibre, or, should it come to that, any other ebook organizer in the future.
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And for myself, when the reader has 1.4GB space left after the OS, yes, I care if books are overly bloated for no reason. Don't get me wrong... I'd never delete maps, etc. as you say are sometimes included. I will compress them though when I see they're 500kb in size for each image when you compress them to under 100kb each or more. But really, the identical image for the top of a chapter... you don't need a different image file for each chapter. That's just wasting space stupidly. That I won't do.
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In that regard, we differ
Things like graphical chapter headings, dropcaps, maps, and that sort of stuff make an eboook an alternative to a normal book. I detest it when the publisher tries to do funny things with the normal text (such as locking font choices, setting small fonts for body text and such), but I like the extra's such as the dropcaps and so on.
I have no qualms about maps and covers that are 500 kB in size. Actually, if I deem a map or cover too small or not good enough in quality, I'll find a bigger version on Google and replace it. Because I never put more than a few books onto the reader, so space is no problem. Therefore I don't compress graphics.