Resolution of Kobo Comics

Rand Brittain · 10-27-2025, 12:12 PM

I bought a few comics from IDW on the Kobo website and have been trying to download them both to my reader and to the Kobo Desktop app, but whichever way I do it, it seems like the downloaded comic is significantly smaller than the filesize that's listed on, say, Amazon for the same book.

Is there a way to be sure I'm downloading a book at maximum quality?

Cactus Chef · 10-27-2025, 01:04 PM

I don't believe Kobo does any resampling of the images the way Kindle will. It's always what the publisher provides, for better or worse.

I've got a copy of Satoshi Kon's Opus from Kobo (which has seemingly been delisted!), which was about 350mb in size and has a resolution per page of 1444x2072. Very high-quality.

By the same token, I have an early epub version of The Supreme and the resolution is garbage (546x816), but then, the upload date on that one was 2011ish.

Rand Brittain · 10-27-2025, 01:29 PM

Hm, yeah, I got the oversized first volume of the Sonic comics and it's not terrible but the filesize is about 125MB and Amazon lists it as being about a gigabyte for the same book. Obviously a gigabyte is impractically huge so it's possible that I got the better-optimized end of the deal.

JSWolf · 10-27-2025, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Rand Brittain

Hm, yeah, I got the oversized first volume of the Sonic comics and it's not terrible but the filesize is about 125MB and Amazon lists it as being about a gigabyte for the same book. Obviously a gigabyte is impractically huge so it's possible that I got the better-optimized end of the deal.

Depending on the Kindle, you'd get reduced resolution and if the images are color, they could end up not being color. Amazon plays games with graphics.

Rand Brittain · 10-29-2025, 01:17 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

Depending on the Kindle, you'd get reduced resolution and if the images are color, they could end up not being color. Amazon plays games with graphics.

Yeah, I'm familiar with that practice which is why I wondered if Kobo did the same thing, but apparently they don't.

10-27-2025, 12:12 PM	#1
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 434 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Resolution of Kobo Comics I bought a few comics from IDW on the Kobo website and have been trying to download them both to my reader and to the Kobo Desktop app, but whichever way I do it, it seems like the downloaded comic is significantly smaller than the filesize that's listed on, say, Amazon for the same book. Is there a way to be sure I'm downloading a book at maximum quality?

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10-27-2025, 01:04 PM	#2
Cactus Chef Guru Posts: 681 Karma: 8163192 Join Date: Apr 2019 Location: East Coast, United States Device: Kobo Sage, Kobo Clara HD, Galaxy Tab S5e, Kindle 4th Gen	I don't believe Kobo does any resampling of the images the way Kindle will. It's always what the publisher provides, for better or worse. I've got a copy of Satoshi Kon's Opus from Kobo (which has seemingly been delisted!), which was about 350mb in size and has a resolution per page of 1444x2072. Very high-quality. By the same token, I have an early epub version of The Supreme and the resolution is garbage (546x816), but then, the upload date on that one was 2011ish.

10-27-2025, 01:29 PM	#3
Rand Brittain Bookmaker Posts: 434 Karma: 2143650 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Cybook Opus	Hm, yeah, I got the oversized first volume of the Sonic comics and it's not terrible but the filesize is about 125MB and Amazon lists it as being about a gigabyte for the same book. Obviously a gigabyte is impractically huge so it's possible that I got the better-optimized end of the deal.

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