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Originally Posted by DNSB
I've seen one ebook from Apple where the cover image was close to 90% of the book size. Yes, it looked better when I looked at the cover image on my iPad but overall, was the change worthwhile? Not really.
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.
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Like I said. Many have unreasonable sized covers, but I think 100kb or less is unrealistic for many images. That doesn't mean that I think 1-2MB is a good idea, just that by saying 100kb or less is where we should be is too low (I'd say 200-500 is more realistic when all's said and done). Of course I'm kind of picky and can't stand pixelated images on a high rez screen I deal with images all day long and too low of a resolution or too compressed an image just gets to me so I have a hard time "throwing out" too much.