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   Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 07:22:53 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

   Putting books on my kid's vintage ereader and my vintage ereader too and good grief an epub for a fiction book does not have to be thirty megabytes yikes

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     linear cannon (linear@nya.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 07:22:45 JST linear cannon

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     @ifixcoinops@retro.social i do this kind of thing all the time with PDFs. i download old manuals or such from the internet all the time and get frustrated by how incredibly slowly they load/render. and then i look and see that they're 150MiB in size for some reason, and will not open in older computers (often the ones they are manuals for)
     
     i usually just run them through pdf2ps then back through ps2pdf12 to turn them into v1.2 PDF files, and they become much smaller and will open on my quadra 700 or my 486

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 07:22:47 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     30 megabyte ebook shrunk down to 200k and even with my glasses on I can't see any difference at all

     Except that it loads faster

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 07:22:50 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     The Actual Story: 100kb

     A cover image four times bigger than the screen of the most high-resolution ereader ever made: One Hundred Times As Much, have fun looking at that on your black and white e-ink screen

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 07:22:52 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     So my ereader's choking on this elephant of a book because someone decided the author mugshot had to be four thousand pixels wide just in case someone wants to zoom in on their individual nose hairs

     🦝 "Thank goodness for Calibre" and other sentences I thought I would never say.epub

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 07:27:02 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     @alcinnz these ones are more like ten million

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     alcinnz (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 07:27:03 JST alcinnz

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     @ifixcoinops You know what they say: A picture is worth a thousand words!

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     Dan Fixes Coin-Ops (ifixcoinops@retro.social)'s status on Thursday, 30-Jan-2025 07:28:06 JST Dan Fixes Coin-Ops

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     🐰 I believe it's "Author headshot," Dan, HEADshot, not "mugshot"

     🦝 buddy lemme tell ya something about the kinda books I got on my ereader

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