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Originally Posted by readeer
Ahhh, gotcha, thanks! The epub is 12 or so mb and the mobi is 8 or so mb so I'm assuming it's not the same. Unless the file size expands converting from mobi to epub. Well, thank you!
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A lot depends on how these files were created. The fact that the MOBI would lack any embedded font and that the EPUB might contain fonts is one possibiity.
It is possible that both were generated from the same root source. The tool used to create each may have made different alterations to the original source document. Long ago and far away, MOBI files would need to have more moderately sized images than newer EPUB files.
If the original source was used to create only the EPUB and then a tool (e.g. calibre, ...) was then used to create the MOBI from the EPUB options in that conversion process by have resized the images and possibly changed their format in addition to other alterations necessary to skip over formatting tags in the EPUB that don't "translate" into the older MOBI format.
If the original ebook format was MOBI and the EPUB was created from it, it's quite possible for the conversion tool to be rather verbose in its creation of style tags. This can actually make the resulting EPUB larger than the MOBI.