Simple bash script to reduce the size of an EPUB file

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Well, this blog is still alive! Have you ever downloaded an EPUB file too many megabytes too large? The reason is, quite probably, that the images in the file come in high resolution. As an .epub is nothing more than a .zip with a certain structure, it's possible to uncompress it, reduce the image size and leave everything as it was before 1 . I've been doing this by hand for a few months but in…

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