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Old 05-22-2025, 04:46 PM   #16
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Can you tell us the image resolutions and sizes? They are obviously different then the US ePub.
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Can you tell us the image resolutions and sizes? They are obviously different then the US ePub.
Cover 1300 x 2000, 766 KB (color)
Map 2000 x 1509, 945 KB
Four b/w images, 1325 x 2000 each:
- 1.4 MB
- 896 KB
- 948 KB
- 1.1 MB
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Old 05-22-2025, 05:03 PM   #18
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Cover 1300 x 2000, 766 KB (color)
Map 2000 x 1509, 945 KB
Four b/w images, 1325 x 2000 each:
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- 948 KB
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I wonder if there are compression artifacts in the UK images given how compressed they are.
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I wonder if there are compression artifacts in the UK images given how compressed they are.
No idea, and given that it's a novel and these are just character images, not anything requiring long, close inspection, I hardly think it matters.
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Those are not section break images.
I know. And that's my problem with them.
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Cover 1300 x 2000, 766 KB (color)
Map 2000 x 1509, 945 KB
Four b/w images, 1325 x 2000 each:
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- 896 KB
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Who sold the EPUB and are the above sizes before or after calibre?
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Who sold the EPUB and are the above sizes before or after calibre?
Kobo. The book is in calibre, but I haven't edited it in any way yet.
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Kobo. The book is in calibre, but I haven't edited it in any way yet.
But calibre probably did. Do you know the file size delivered by koko?
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But calibre probably did. Do you know the file size delivered by koko?
No. The UK edition has DRM, so I have no copy outside calibre.
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I wonder if there are compression artifacts in the UK images given how compressed they are.
They could quite easily be lossless if the images are greyscale.

Maps are fairly useless in ebooks, in my experience, and the other images don't seem important, so the big file size seems like unnecessary bloat.
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Who sold the EPUB and are the above sizes before or after calibre?
Calibre does not change the images in the original eBook format. So those images are as they came from Gollancz. I did a preview from eBooks.com and it is indeed missing the color images (other then the cover and the advert).
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They could quite easily be lossless if the images are greyscale.

Maps are fairly useless in ebooks, in my experience, and the other images don't seem important, so the big file size seems like unnecessary bloat.
I agree the images don't need to be that large. But they are part of the book. The images are not lossless as they are JPEG.
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Calibre does not change the images in the original eBook format. So those images are as they came from Gollancz. I did a preview from eBooks.com and it is indeed missing the color images (other then the cover and the advert).
I was thinking about what happens when calibre sends the book to the ereader. My mistake.
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That's way too many images for a work of fiction--at any res. A couple of fleurons should suffice.
Yes for anyone over age of 9 anyway?
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