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Originally Posted by slowsmile
@samuvk...The trouble with loading a PDF of your kids ebook into Kindle Kids Book Creator(KKBC) is that each page(text and images) in your PDF file will automatically be transformed into a full-page jpeg image. That's a BIG hit on your ebook file size.
You might want to investigate creating your kid's ebook as a reflowable ebook using Kindle Create(free app download from Amazon). If you go this route, you just load your properly prepared Word doc into Kindle Create(choose "Reflowable"). I would also advise you to insert/resize all your images in Kindle Create and not Word. You can also create full-bleed width images in KC by clicking on an image and selecting Image Properties panel > Size > Full and then choosing Bleed for ebook > Place to edge. For max screen width your images should be at least 1200 pixels wide and full page images should be at least 1200 x 1800 pixels in size(with an aspect ratio of 1:1.5). Also bear in mind that you will not be able to create pop-up text boxes in Kindle Create(like you can in KKBC).
And since it's really your images that are causing your file size problem, you might want to consider using the TinyPNG website to reduce the file size of all your images before your insert them into your reflowable ebook using KC. TinyPNG uses lossless compression to reduce the file size of your images which means that, after compression, image quality will always be preserved.
Using TinyPNG to compress your images and creating a reflowable ebook using KC as described will probably more than halve your ebook's current file size. |
William:
At 1800x1200, each image/page is ggoing to be 2.160MB, x 25 = 54MB. I don't think you're heading in the direction he is trying to go.
I have this vague recollection that I already answered this question at the KDP forums, but hell, I'll try again.
By using images, as William mentioned, you are making the file larger than it absolutely has to be. I'm going to assume that you're trying to make an illustrated kids' book; someone else has done the illustrations and apparently, also typeset or hand-inked the narrative, etc.
Then you took these and slapped them into...what, Word?....and then created a PDF. That's not really the best way to do this, but let's say it's your only option.
According to what you're telling us--your original Word file was 2.5mb, and you had 25 images--that means that your images are 100kb each. Is that right? That honestly sounds like very low-resolution images, or very small images being blown up to fit a given size.
What size page or layout are you trying to design your book to? 8x10? 8.5" x 8.5"? What and how were the pages created in the first place?
Hitch