Is there a way to Convert Jpgs to Webp

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Probably nearly €200 + VAT here, but still cheap. A 1/3rd tank of petrol was €20 today and I spent €106 on 11 off 1m x 8mm alloy tubes.

Storage is very cheap now. I remember paying £££ for a 5 MByte HDD for the Apple II

My first hard drive was a 20MByte Seagate that I traded someone a 3.5" floppy drive for. It was used in my IBM PC clone.

[BetterRed]

Disk space is not the only factor - there's also transmission, try living on the end of a geostationary satellite link that drops out when its raining - and paying for it month after month after month.

BR

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Probably nearly €200 + VAT here, but still cheap. A 1/3rd tank of petrol was €20 today and I spent €106 on 11 off 1m x 8mm alloy tubes.

Storage is very cheap now. I remember paying £££ for a 5 MByte HDD for the Apple II

Here you go for a rather good deal for a 1TB SSD,

[URL="https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0B25LZGGW"]Crucial P3 1TB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe Internal SSD -

1TB - £43.99
2TB - £92.94

[Quoth]

A 512 G SSD may be optimal size for speed and reliability right now on a hybrid system with also an HDD. Often 2x 256G "interleaved" so faster than 256 G. A 1T and 2T are usually no faster and more likely to fail. A hybrid system is very fast as programs are all on SSD but SMART gives advance warning of HDD fail and even when starting to fail existing data can mostly be read.

The new laptop was crazy cheap €360 inc VAT, which is why it's only 256 G SSD, but it has the SATA HDD bay and I had a spare hardly used 1T HDD. My main workstation 512 G SSD is less than 8% full because all the data files are on a 3.5" 4T HDD, which was €40 with 2 year warranty.

I use rync for online backups to attic server and a 2nd workstation and to sync main laptop and workstation. Then there are 3x USB HDDs for backups.

I think all the NVMe PCIe SSDs are Samsung.

My home "cable TV" station uses two USB memory sticks as it's read-only 24x7. They are fast enough and it's very cheap. The continuous random seeks would be bad for an HDD. The HDMI output feeds a cheap standalone box to generate H.264 HDTV on DVB-T into the home TV & Satellite distribution system.

[kevn57]

Thanks for all the replies, I have plenty of storage space on my server where I keep the video, music and cbz files but my minipc's SSD is only 256GB which I'm not planing on upgrading because it can't upgrade to Windows 11, so I'll be buying a new mini in 2025. Right now my ebook library takes up almost half of the drive space and of course it just growing.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by kevn57

Thanks BetterRed, I know how to convert the images, but then the HTML needs to be edited, I can do it by hand but I have a lot Light Novels that take up a lot of space I was looking for something then can convert images and also update the appropriate files to change the links from ex. pic1.jpg to pic1.webp

I guess not many people care about this because most fiction ebooks don't have a lot of images, maybe that's why no one has automated a solution.

Easiest way is to rename all the .jpg files to .webp in Sigil or the calibre editor. This will change the names in the HTML files. Save the epub and then open it with your favoured zip file utility. Copy the .webp files out, rename them to .jpg, convert to webp and copy the .webp files back into the epub.

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by kevn57

Thanks for all the replies, I have plenty of storage space on my server where I keep the video, music and cbz files but my minipc's SSD is only 256GB which I'm not planing on upgrading because it can't upgrade to Windows 11, so I'll be buying a new mini in 2025. Right now my ebook library takes up almost half of the drive space and of course it just growing.

Upgrading Windows is a separate thing to upgrading an SSD. You should have a backup anyway and simply restore that on new 512 SSD.

Has it no option for adding also a laptop SATA drive (SSD or HDD)?

My laptop 256 GB SSD has 226 GB free. I can't see how the size of your ebook library is an issue. It would be simpler even to add a USB3.0 external HDD (seems to have little effect on Calibre or video performance) if there is no internal space for extra storage.

When I was replacing my November 2016 laptop recently I specifically got one that had the space and connector for a SATA drive as well as the included NVMe PCIe 256G SSD. Adding the 1TB SATA HDD (I could have put a SATA SSD) was simple and boot time is about 9s instead of 7s. No difference to running any program.

Crippling all your ebooks so they won't work on an ereader, plus the time involved seems strange.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Probably nearly €200 + VAT here, but still cheap. A 1/3rd tank of petrol was €20 today and I spent €106 on 11 off 1m x 8mm alloy tubes.

Storage is very cheap now. I remember paying £££ for a 5 MByte HDD for the Apple II

My first 40M MFM drive was $425. IRRC the 5.25 floppy discs for a Lisa were $20 (they had 2 head windows instead of 1) EACH

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by theducks

the 5.25 floppy discs for a Lisa were $20 (they had 2 head windows instead of 1) EACH

That, for you young ones, is the media. Not the drive. Very much later you could buy 3.5" drives for a PC at $20. All my 5.25" floppies had two head windows. I never saw any sort of floppy with only one head window (8", 5.25", 3.5" and 3"). Some drives only had one head so people cut a second notch (a taped over notch was write protection). You had to flip the disk to use the other side 100k on an Apple II floppy, assuming you added a notch. Other computers had 180K or 360K and the Victor 9000 / ACT Sirius I (in UK before IBM PC) used the same floppies as 360K on an IBM PC to give 1.2M Byte by varying the speed. Later PCs had higher density floppies at 1.2M which could read the 360K floppies, but if you wrote to them the original PC might not be able to read them. The 3.5" were 720K on the PC, then 1.44M. The Amiga formatted a bit extra on the 1.44M. There was also a last gasp 2.88M 3.5" apart from various floppy sized discs that were not (the infamously unreliable Zip drive and the incredibly reliable MagnetoOptic drive (128M and 256M disks that could survive magnets or washing machines as the magnetic field only flipped a bit heated by the laser).

In 1983 we still used an Intel ISIS II development system with interchangeable Hard Disk platters in a drive about the size of desk height filing cabinet. A Jupiter Ace Home Computer with cassette was used at that time to control some test gear. It had 1K RAM and the cassette as storage. Could run PacMan written in Forth.

[theducks]

That was 2 on a side (4 total), across fro the other. Only Apple

[Quoth]

Originally Posted by theducks

That was 2 on a side (4 total), across fro the other. Only Apple

I never knew that!
Why? The floppy is spinning! Yes, it might reduce access time, but it's still rubbish for the cost of adding more heads. Crazy. Well, no doubt no Macs (Lisa MkII?) had it. The ROM based Mac that mouldered in my attic for a while had 3.5" floppy, but maybe expensively SCSI. There was an external drive. Can't remember if it had an internal one.