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Originally Posted by eschwartz
All I know is the books that have maps are perfectly legible (and they aren't even the majority of books, and yes they do tend to be bigger than the average), and at the same time, Amazon books tend to be smaller in size than books sourced elsewhere.
I suppose it does depend on what you read, but honestly... most fiction doesn't have illustrations, and I haven't seen all that many that have images at the start of a chapter whether ebook or pbook.
And I still think 3 MB per book is ridiculous.
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The average for my book collection is around 600KB. But then I look at the ~200 cookbooks and the average for them is well over 10MB with a couple of newer ones with hi-res images for each recipe that run into the 200MB range.
Like GeoffR, I tend to replace maps, etc. with the higher res versions just to make it easier to read them and to allow me to zoom in if needed. The cover images I'm not all that worried about since I seldom look at my Kobo when it is sleeping or powered off.
As for the images inside the ebook? One recent purchase by my wife had images for each chapter header plus images for scene breaks. The chapter images I left other than reducing their size -- lovely colour images that are now B&W. The 87 identical scene break images were replaced by a single image after I took one of the images and reduced it to B&W. Took a couple of seconds to find vignette01.jpeg-vignette87.jpeg and replace them with vignette01.jpeg. The epub file size dropped from 1.3MB to 650KB.