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Old 11-19-2019, 06:08 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by stumped View Post
lets say you improve the compression by 10% and save an amazing 30kb per book
what could you possibly use that for ?
10% more books.

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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
It is very common for compression algorithms that squeeze out a bit more compression at the cost of a lot of CPU to have decompressors that use little or no additional CPU.
Yep, or just being much more intelligent with the parameters it's choosing.

Like with PNG compression, there are a million valid ways to compress.

Zopfli is an alternative very CPU-heavy algorithm Google came up with, but resulted in a smaller PNG (~3-8%) by selecting better parameters.

Takes the same exact amount of resources to decompress it though.

I gave some examples way back in 2013:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...45#post2499645

(Since then, ScriptPNG has been superseded by pingo.)

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Originally Posted by Sekkei View Post
Sadly my Voyage has only 4GB and I like manga, I even recompress them manually to a per page ~180KB High-res low-color PNG, but as you can imagine, there is not space left if you want to carry your favorite manga saga on the go :/
Manga? PNGs?!!? Then definitely run it through pingo and you'll probably save a hell of a lot of space. At least 3-8%, but depending on the complexity and if the publisher compressed previously, you may even save more.

If they're B&W/grayscale/<256-colors, you could also convert it to Indexed images for you and save A TON of space. (In the example linked above, my chart went from 143.1 KB -> 44.5 KB.)
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