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Old 04-02-2017, 08:06 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
What I do with the cover is use Calibre's editor to reduce the size to 1500 lines if it's larger and I losslessly compress at 80%. That works and reduces the cover image size enough. I prefer to keep the color images. I know grayscale images are going to be smaller, but I don't try to cram my H2O full of books.
You appear to be confusing my statement that some people do X for reasons A and B with (a) me doing X myself or (b) me recommending that you, specifically, should do X.

Neither is true.

You do what you want, and let other people do as they please. It's a big, wide world out there, full of room for lots of different opinions on this subject. It's neither your place nor mine to impose our opinions on others as The One True Way.

I do some weird stuff, for example. Having noticed how many Open Road Media books use a certain color red bar across the top and bottom of their covers, I took advantage of my newly-installed calibre developer's environment to add a code snippet to my installation that changes the cover page's background color to that shade of red if calibre detects that they're the publisher.

Will anyone else want to do that? Probably not - but I do, so I did, and I like it that way.
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