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rosshalde · 09-08-2014, 02:16 PM

Hello,
I am starting with an epub created in Pages.
when I use calibre to convert this to mobi, it displays great and is much smaller, only about 25% of the epub size. Can anyone tell me what exactly calibre does to pics when it starts with an epub and makes it a mobi?

I have tried starting with an epub and using calibre to convert to epub to see if it would shrink my epub to a much smaller epub, but that did not work.

Thanks in advance for any help.

I have tried adjusting size and resolution of the pics that go to make the epub, which does shrink the epub, but when I take those files and convert to mobi, they are STILL shrinking even more in the conversion.

09-08-2014, 02:16 PM	#1
rosshalde Zealot Posts: 142 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2014 Device: nook	why is my epub so much bigger than my mobi Hello, I am starting with an epub created in Pages. when I use calibre to convert this to mobi, it displays great and is much smaller, only about 25% of the epub size. Can anyone tell me what exactly calibre does to pics when it starts with an epub and makes it a mobi? I have tried starting with an epub and using calibre to convert to epub to see if it would shrink my epub to a much smaller epub, but that did not work. Thanks in advance for any help. I have tried adjusting size and resolution of the pics that go to make the epub, which does shrink the epub, but when I take those files and convert to mobi, they are STILL shrinking even more in the conversion.