New Calibre Install

Sydney's Mom · 03-25-2013, 01:12 PM

Got a new computer, and of course the first thing I did was install Calibre. I unchecked download ratings, and restarted. But it is still downloading ratings when downloading metadata, even thought the box is no longer checked. Is there a second box?

This is a new issue. I prefer to send all my books to my kindle via Wi-Fi. Recently, one stopped because it exceeded size limitations for Google. It was 31 MB (encyclopedia for home brewing). Does Calibre have a compressing function that would get this down substantially?

PeterT · 03-25-2013, 01:47 PM

Not sure but I know recently I had found some cookbooks that were positively GIGANTIC. Expoding them in calibre it was all because of the colour images, many of which were 2 Meg jpegs. I lowered the resolution of all of them and it made quite a difference in size.

03-25-2013, 01:12 PM	#1
Sydney's Mom Wizard Posts: 2,896 Karma: 6995721 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Idaho, on the side of a mountain Device: Kindle Oasis, Fire 3d Gen and 5th Gen and Samsung Tab S	New Calibre Install Got a new computer, and of course the first thing I did was install Calibre. I unchecked download ratings, and restarted. But it is still downloading ratings when downloading metadata, even thought the box is no longer checked. Is there a second box? This is a new issue. I prefer to send all my books to my kindle via Wi-Fi. Recently, one stopped because it exceeded size limitations for Google. It was 31 MB (encyclopedia for home brewing). Does Calibre have a compressing function that would get this down substantially?

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03-25-2013, 01:47 PM	#2
PeterT Grand Sorcerer Posts: 13,366 Karma: 78877538 Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Toronto Device: Libra H2O, Libra Colour	Not sure but I know recently I had found some cookbooks that were positively GIGANTIC. Expoding them in calibre it was all because of the colour images, many of which were 2 Meg jpegs. I lowered the resolution of all of them and it made quite a difference in size.

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