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Originally Posted by RbnJrg
The size limit of 127kb is for .mobi files; for .kf8 the limit is 256kb. But I repeat you, don't worry and continue using a image of 1200x1800. If the image is heavier than 256kb then KindleGen will recompress it to a suitable size.
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Oh, well, that's good news! But also bad news -- at least, for images that are 1200x1800. I just pulled up some of the images in my epub that were the largest in file size, and to bring them down to 256kb (or less) I had to apply a
lot of compression -- like, down to between 15% and 20%.
But I gather there's not much I can do about that? Assuming not, then I suppose I'd be best off to bring them down to 256kb (or less) myself, rather than let KG do it, right? My original working files are all uncompressed Photoshop files, and if I make them into "high-quality" JPEGs first (greater than 256kb) then I'm already adding compression, and if KG then re-compresses them then I'd only be losing even more quality (i.e. I'd be losing it twice, in a way).
It's a shame, because it doesn't seem that iBooks (and I presume ADE, although I don't know for sure) has that requirement, and for them it's no problem to have nice, high-quality images -- but if I want to make one file that works on all platforms, then it's Kindle's file size requirement that sacrifices quality on every other platform. :/