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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
How do you do this? Penguin cozy mysteries suffer the problem a lot.
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JSWolf explained it exactly as I do it. You can also just remove the fancy border from all chapters too if you feel it detracts from the book when viewed on an ereader at all. That might be simpler to do, but I usually try to keep formatting as close to the original as possible.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
This is idiocy on a level that doesn't even exist yet.
The only way I can think of is that this happens when the EPUB is auto-generated from a file that actually includes the image multiple times, such as a Word-document.
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I see this quite often in ebooks lately, and I agree, it is idiocy, especially when there's between 35-50 chapters and there's a separate image for each of the chapters, even though they're identical. The sizes are slightly different by a few pixels and fractions of kb, so I've no doubt it's done by some automated process where the push is to crank out as many books as possible quickly, even if bloated to over 50% size increase (or more, I've compressed images where the new ones are less than 12% of the original size in the book).
I've got some books over 2MBs where once the duplicate images are deleted and I compress the images that are left brings the book down to around 500kb. That's a huge difference for one file, especially when there's absolutely no reason for it.