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Originally Posted by DNSB
My personal preferences are 1500x1000 (3:2) or 1500x1125 (4:3). Larger images tend to give me an epub file where the text takes <300K and the cover image is >500K. I'd rather have the smaller cover image and file size.
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Yes, I agree about the filesize.
Something just niggles at the back of my mind when I see a 2 MB book with a 1.8 MB cover. :P
I personally set a soft ~1MB limit on my covers, and 1600px covers easily fit into that while still at >95 JPG Quality.
Side Note: When I first started, I used 800x1200 covers, because all the major stores still accepted/recommended that.
Since larger and higher resolution/DPI devices have come out though...
All the major stores updated their specs to 1600px minimum.
So sure, if you're making it on your own, for your own personal devices, go with lower resolution covers.
If you're creating for sale though, go higher resolution.
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Originally Posted by DNSB
this one tosses out the CSS embedded in the ebook and uses it's own builtin CSS, this one makes any dropcaps look like crapcaps, etc.
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crapcaps.
I'm going to use that from now on.