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Old 06-11-2014, 02:19 PM   #2
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by crutledge View Post
kindlegen and kindle previewer apparently store a copy of the source file in the mobi file making the file larger than necessary for reading.

Some where I've seen a command line option to turn off the saving the source file, making the smallest mobi file possible.

Woiuld someone please refresh my memory?

Thanks
-dont_append_source

Of course, you can do what I do. After generating the combined file, I just put that into Calibre and use Kindleunpack to split the files into KF8 & Mobi. Then you can replace the combined file in Calibre with the version you want to read and same even more space.
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