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sup · 11-06-2018, 11:11 AM

My e-mail provider refuses to send my downloaded news to my Kindle because the files are to large. I came up with this code (do not run if you have a tmp directory in your working directory):

Code:

ebook-convert big.mobi tmp.epub
unzip -d tmp tmp.epub   
cd tmp
find . -type f  \
-iregex  '^.*[.]\(jpg\|jpeg\|png\|gif\)$' \
-exec mogrify -quality 85 -resize '500x500>' {} \;
zip -Duro ../tmp1.epub .
cd ..
rm -rf tmp
ebook-convert tmp.epub small.mobi

Isn't there a simpler way to tell calibre to convert the images to smaller sizes?

11-06-2018, 11:11 AM	#1
sup Zealot Posts: 103 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2013 Device: Kindle Paperwhite (2012)	Make mobis downloaded via a recipe smaller My e-mail provider refuses to send my downloaded news to my Kindle because the files are to large. I came up with this code (do not run if you have a tmp directory in your working directory): Code: ebook-convert big.mobi tmp.epub unzip -d tmp tmp.epub cd tmp find . -type f \ -iregex '^.*[.]\(jpg\\|jpeg\\|png\\|gif\)$' \ -exec mogrify -quality 85 -resize '500x500>' {} \; zip -Duro ../tmp1.epub . cd .. rm -rf tmp ebook-convert tmp.epub small.mobi Isn't there a simpler way to tell calibre to convert the images to smaller sizes?