Pale is too large to easily add to Kindle

[tedivm]

Kindle has a limit of 50mb for files transferred via email. Pale is 122mb.

Would it be possible to have an option to split Pale into smaller books?

[jtojnar]

We could split it but we would have to decide on where.

Or we could explore other avenues to reduce the size:

• We could remove the images.
  • The cover image has 12 MB and the rest of the images have 89 MB. When I remove them from the archive manually, it has just 7.9 MB (compared to 115 MB of the older version of Pale I have downloaded).
  • But as mentioned in Why is Pale 122 MB? #54, some of the images are from bonus chapters and enrich the story.
• We could resize the images to smaller dimensions (e.g. user could specify display dimensions of the reader).
  • But then how would we ensure the text remains readable?
• We could apply a more aggressive lossless compression of the images.
  • Readability is still a concern.

Alternately, you could split it yourself in Calibre with https://github.com/JimmXinu/EpubSplit/tree/main, as described in https://superuser.com/questions/1337407/how-to-slice-an-epub-into-smaller-volumes.

[tedivm]

Another option is to convert images to black and white, and then compress them. Maybe a "--kindle" flag. Since kindle's don't have color the data doesn't matter anyways.

[phoenixrising211]

Calibre's EpubSplit plugin apparently only works on EPUB2 format, and the scraper produces EPUB3.

Edit: But the Send to Kindle web page on Amazon.com has an upload limit of 200MB, so you can comfortably use that instead of email.