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Originally Posted by eggheadbooks1
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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No, it was not about the image size. I don't care what the Writer2ePub is saying, it is not true. It is only the XHTML. Large images were not useful back then, but that is more about the dimensions than the size. Sure, large images would take longer to load, but not crash.
I have one of those older devices and I usually have images larger than 300kb, never a problem at all. XHTML, yes.
If you really want to have larger images than for example 1200 pixels (and that is no issue on the older devices) in lenght, you can always create a HD version.