Troubleshooting Uploading 58mb file to KPW v1

henders254 · 10-02-2015, 11:56 PM

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susan_cassidy · 10-03-2015, 01:30 AM

Sideloading means loading outside the normal mechanism (wifi from Amazon). The file is too big to use the email service, so you'd have to copy it over via USB. Highlights from an ePub file are not going to be copied over.

eschwartz · 10-04-2015, 12:11 AM

As susan_cassidy said.

If you want highlights to sync across Kindle devices, you will need to use Amazon's Personal Documents Service.
But they don't accept files that big.

You're stuck.

Do those images need to be that big? Can you try downsizing them, lowering the image quality to something that still looks good on your Kindle

but isn't as large.
You can get some savings by using any of several tools to strip out useless metadata from the images, but probably not 37MB worth...

cybmole · 10-04-2015, 01:58 AM

an alternative to USB is: add the 58Mb file to a "documents" folder in your amazon cloud drive ( no file size limits there); access that from your Kindle ( with a fire tablet you'd just use the documents tab, with a PW I guess you'd use the built in browser to download it, unless it also has cloud documents access ii-built)

Where are your existing highlight being stored - did you highlight the epub or the mobi version, and how ?

there is a desktop app for putting stuff into your cloud drive, or you can do it via any browser.

tomsem · 10-05-2015, 06:20 PM

There might be a calibre plugin to shrink image size (or at least there could be one). It should be very possible to get below 50MB limit by converting to greyscale or increasing compression.

It would be interesting to experiment with replacing bitmap images with SVG (vector) as well. KF8 doesn't have great SVG support (for example there is no ability to zoom these) but they can be significantly smaller, particularly for line drawings and text rendered as bitmaps.

eschwartz · 10-06-2015, 08:39 PM

to grayscale images -- unless you are planning to read on a tablet or smartphone as well, color is a complete waste of space on E-Ink devices.
That will be the easiest way to get significant savings.

10-02-2015, 11:56 PM	#1
henders254 Enthusiast Posts: 36 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2011 Device: None at the moment	deleted deleted Last edited by henders254; 07-03-2017 at 04:44 PM.

10-04-2015, 12:11 AM	#3
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,422 Karma: 85397180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	As susan_cassidy said. If you want highlights to sync across Kindle devices, you will need to use Amazon's Personal Documents Service. But they don't accept files that big. You're stuck. Do those images need to be that big? Can you try downsizing them, lowering the image quality to something that still looks good on your Kindle but isn't as large. You can get some savings by using any of several tools to strip out useless metadata from the images, but probably not 37MB worth... Last edited by eschwartz; 10-04-2015 at 02:15 AM.

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10-03-2015, 01:30 AM	#2
susan_cassidy Wizard Posts: 2,251 Karma: 3720310 Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: USA Device: Kindle, iPad (not used much for reading)	Sideloading means loading outside the normal mechanism (wifi from Amazon). The file is too big to use the email service, so you'd have to copy it over via USB. Highlights from an ePub file are not going to be copied over.

10-04-2015, 01:58 AM	#4
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	an alternative to USB is: add the 58Mb file to a "documents" folder in your amazon cloud drive ( no file size limits there); access that from your Kindle ( with a fire tablet you'd just use the documents tab, with a PW I guess you'd use the built in browser to download it, unless it also has cloud documents access ii-built) Where are your existing highlight being stored - did you highlight the epub or the mobi version, and how ? there is a desktop app for putting stuff into your cloud drive, or you can do it via any browser.

10-05-2015, 06:20 PM	#5
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,478 Karma: 26425959 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	There might be a calibre plugin to shrink image size (or at least there could be one). It should be very possible to get below 50MB limit by converting to greyscale or increasing compression. It would be interesting to experiment with replacing bitmap images with SVG (vector) as well. KF8 doesn't have great SVG support (for example there is no ability to zoom these) but they can be significantly smaller, particularly for line drawings and text rendered as bitmaps.

10-06-2015, 08:39 PM	#6
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,422 Karma: 85397180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	to grayscale images -- unless you are planning to read on a tablet or smartphone as well, color is a complete waste of space on E-Ink devices. That will be the easiest way to get significant savings.

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