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Originally Posted by cybmole
sorry but I don't believe you. list the titles please.
I have one of the largest epubs ever published -the complete Game of Thrones 5 volume saga, 4700 pages.
Is is ~10mb in epub 12mb in azw3. 8 of those would be 80mb, not 1,500 mb
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My version of "Dark Wraith of Shannara", optimized for EPUB, is 22.8 MB, and only 32 pages long.
And you think that the Song of Ice and Fire 1-5 EPUB is the largest one ever published? Maybe so, if only looking to current works, but there are far larger ones. The Delphi Classics for one.
The Complete Works of Anthony Tollope: 49.5 MB, 25,859 pages (@2400 characters per page)
The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: 80.1 MB, 18,922 pages (@2400 characters per page)
And here's the kicker:
The Complete Works of Frank L. Baum: 134.1 MB, 8,033 pages (@2400 characters per page)
Pages have NOTHING to do with the size of an EPUB. The one by Frank L. Baum has the least number of pages by 2.5-3 times, but is by far the largest one.
Anyone who has one or more of the Delphi Classics can confirm my findings, and if you REALLY want to, I'll upload you some screenshots. edit: uploaded a screenshot.
I can easily believe that there are epubs around that are even more image-heavy than the compilation by Frank L. Baum (which is the largest I own); a compilation of old 60's pulp graphic novels, for example, in an EPUB optimized for tablets, or an ebook consisting of 1500 images of scanned pages because the text is in a font not suited to OCR reliably for example.
That you can't fathom it, doesn't mean it can't exist
(If one wants to know: I came by the AZW3 by converting the official and original EPUBs using Kindlegen, and then extracting an AZW3 from the resulting MOBI using KindleUnpack.)