Thread: Extremely light and fast conversion
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Old 04-29-2018, 08:20 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Owl_ View Post
Hello, two questions:

Which is the lighter and faster ebook format for the kobo aura one ereader?

Could you post the best calibre setting to get an extremely light and fast conversion for that format? (I mean remove pictures, table of context, index and all the other stuff, leaving only the pure and simple text)
What is the point of the question? What are you trying to achieve? Are you trying to save space somewhere? Make conversion faster? Improve performance on the device? Or in some other way have a better experience on the device? The answer to what you are asking does depend on what you are actually trying to do.

Having said that...

I am of the opinion that either epub or kepub are the best formats for the Kobo devices. And that stripping out everything isn't going to make enough difference to anything to make it worthwhile doing. After all, if someone created a book with pictures in it, didn't they do it for a reason? Aren't the pictures part of the book and need to be seen? And reducing the size of the pictures is just going to make them blurry on the screen. The cover image is a bit different. Decreasing its size to save space can be sensible (but the cover images generated on the Kobo devices are fixed in size). There was a recent thread here asking about this.

Removing just about anything else is hard work. A lot of books have extra stuff at the back about other books, or a preview. There is no way to automatically remove these sections. You will need to do this manually. Same goes for things like the ToC page or copyright page.
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