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Old 08-13-2009, 02:59 PM   #167
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Another point is that I am noticing that some ADE ebooks, because of the graphics, and illustrations, eat up a hell of a lot more memory than some of us are used to.
I agree, although the primary reason may be that many commercial ePubs include "embedded" fonts. I put embedded in quotes because the full font files are zipped into in the .epub container file which is a different approach to conventional font embedding. In any case, the fonts can take up a lot of space and it is likely that every single ePub from a publisher will contain the exactly the same fonts. So they end up "wasting" a lot of space, but this is required because of how fonts are licensed.
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