Sounds great. Welcome to the forum.
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Originally Posted by Fitz Frobozz
Forgive me if this has been hashed out to death already in other threads (pointers to them would be most welcome, especially if they are not super old).
TLDR; Have you used ePUB to preserve or archive anything? How did it go? What did you learn? [...]
I'm [...] focusing on efforts to create a digital archive for collections of personal and family texts and photos. [...]
I would love to hear about projects others have been involved in that draw upon their best practices.
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I linked to a ton of my best summaries/resources/tutorials back in:
That should cover pretty much any/all best practices + digitization questions.
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Originally Posted by Fitz Frobozz
Currently the epub3 document I'm working with contains about 50 xhtml pages that are each devoted to a single color 1350x2000px PNG (16.5MG average file size). This image and file size already feels too big to me judging from a few little clues, and I'm wondering if I should cut it down by half. (Even that might be too large, for all I know.)
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What are the images? Are they photographs? Can you post some samples?
Sounds to me like you may accidentally just be plopping in images of "scanned pages" into your EPUBs.
If your images are just scans of pages out of books, you'd need to OCR and change those into actual text.
If the images are photographs—like of people, trees, etc.—you can probably use JPGs instead of PNGs. That will save lots of space too.