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pdurrant · 03-15-2015, 08:11 AM

OK, looking at the source ePub it's very neatly done, with plain paragraphs being just the default <p> paragraph style. Any conversion through calibre will convert all the <p> to <p class="calibreN"> which will obviously bump up the size a bit. On my conversion, I get to 2,477,500 bytes instead of 2,463,090 bytes for the original ePub.

Converting with KindleGen should avoid this expansion, but also include a mobi7 version, resulting in a file of 3,212,857 bytes. Running that through KindleUnpack (which also splits it into mobi7 and KF8 versions), I end up with an azw3/KF8 of 2,004,777 bytes.

03-15-2015, 08:11 AM	#14
pdurrant The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠 Posts: 74,129 Karma: 315558334 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Norfolk, England Device: Kindle Oasis	OK, looking at the source ePub it's very neatly done, with plain paragraphs being just the default <p> paragraph style. Any conversion through calibre will convert all the <p> to <p class="calibreN"> which will obviously bump up the size a bit. On my conversion, I get to 2,477,500 bytes instead of 2,463,090 bytes for the original ePub. Converting with KindleGen should avoid this expansion, but also include a mobi7 version, resulting in a file of 3,212,857 bytes. Running that through KindleUnpack (which also splits it into mobi7 and KF8 versions), I end up with an azw3/KF8 of 2,004,777 bytes. Last edited by pdurrant; 03-15-2015 at 08:13 AM.