Thread: At what point do we deprecate the 300KB image limit?
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Old 06-09-2014, 04:00 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Toxaris View Post
It was never about the image size, but the size of the uncompressed XHTML size... Even current e-ink readers will become slower when the file becomes larger. As for most books a chapter will not hit that mark, it is usually not a very big issue.
Images can be larger.
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It's the individual XHTML files you need to keep within the limit. Image sizes can be larger than that.
But is WAS about image size, too: every auto-convertor from Calibre to writer2ePub has compressed or downsized images to fit within the recommended 260KB limit when building an ePub. Writer2ePub would even warn users if their images were larger than 255KB (might still but I haven't tested it in 2 years). And when I first learned about this stuff from the developers, I was told the 300KB limit/260KB recommendation applied to images, not just to the individual XHTML file size. If either exceeded 300 KB then some ePub devices would crash or fail to load.

So back to the question: at what point can we, or must we, deprecate this?
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