04-15-2013, 09:34 PM | #46 |
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Is this just an issue with one font or many? To me that would be a pretty big issue and much more than annoying.
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Most other small images for fancy chapter headings or dividers are usually under 10kb each. Again, if done properly to not waste space for no reason. |
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04-15-2013, 09:57 PM | #49 |
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You're just going to have to start buying "big boy" books with more words and less pictures! I hadn't thought about books with images taking up so much more room, guess I don't have (m)any with maps, diagrams, images, etc. Thanks for pointing out something that I was clueless about. Always nice to see something from a different viewpoint, I couldn't for the life of me imagine why HTML would take up more space because of higher resolution displays... |
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04-15-2013, 10:02 PM | #51 |
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While I agree there are lots of covers out there that are a larger file size than needed. With current cover specs required by many retailers (1400 pixels minimum width and likely to increase over time) 100kb or less isn't realistic for many of the images out there.
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04-15-2013, 10:04 PM | #52 |
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I think this was developed for the manga market, which would be very important to Kobo's success in Asia. 4GB, larger screen, higher resolution.
They're being smart and also aiming the marketing at the Sony users who miss the 900/950 and the premium devices. Perfect timing given the laments about Sony dissing the front lighting. |
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Just plain sloppy work in my not so humble opinion. Regards, David |
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I am really tempted to get one. I can't wait for Chapters to get them in so I can check them out.
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04-15-2013, 10:21 PM | #55 |
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I have to say that some cookbooks I have borrowed from the library were around 100 megabytes on size and this was traceable to many large images. Exploding the ePub and resizing the images made them far more palatable.
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Just for the heck of it, I converted a 4000x6000 image of decorative cherry blossoms to a 1400x2100 image. Dropping the jpeg quality to 75% when saving gave me a 185KB file. The original image clocked in at 13.4MB but then the camera is set to maximize quality when saving .jpg format -- I have to justify having dual 32GB cards in the camera somehow. Regards, David Last edited by DNSB; 04-15-2013 at 10:29 PM. |
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Wow.. lots of pesimistic opinions out there.. Picky, Picky.. I wonder why.. sheesh.. I think it will be awesome..
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I would say.. buy it, try it, and then you can give a honest, fair and intelligent opinions.. If you do that you may like.. if you don't like it.. sell it.. <smile>
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