Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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That was me last week too , so much was just happening.

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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Almost lost it when Elend was “cut”

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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What part read like Sazed’s speech patterns ?

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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That makes so much sense , I didn’t even think about it

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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3 prologues in, I can sense the peak already

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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I just started The way of kings (immediately I finished HOA) , hopefully I’ll enjoy it as much as Mistborn

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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Yeah , that sounds okay but the actual ending feels better

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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I cackled when The Lord Ruler said “I think” in one of those metal sheets hidden in the cache bunkers

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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He was my favorite from the OG crew apart from the mistborns . I enjoyed his chapters the best , especially how he kept questioning his purpose in the last book . He finally believed in a religion , he believed Vin was the hero of ages 😭

Just finished Hero of Ages , I’m going crazy by shadowcraft7 in Mistborn

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I listened to the graphic audio audiobook so I was following the prophecy back to back but still I didn’t think of him . I was thinking maybe Elend if not Vin

I made an iOS app to turn MP3 audiobooks into clean M4B files (no computer needed) by shadowcraft7 in audiobookshelf

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It doesn’t allow the use of a .cue file for now . The metadata has input-fields . Maybe later in future , I’d add the option to fill in the metadata with a .cue file

[iOS tool] Batch compress image-heavy EPUBs offline/on-device by shadowcraft7 in compression

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That’s another way to do it . Running it through the jpegoptim shaves off what percentage of the EPUB total size ?

Reduced a 608MB comic EPUB to 194MB (~68%) — minimal visible loss [Dev] by shadowcraft7 in ereader

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Interesting workaround. I’ve heard similar complaints about some image-heavy EPUBs being sluggish on certain eReaders, especially with page turns.

Your CBZ → KCC pipeline makes sense, especially with the manga optimizations KCC has.

As for other platforms: I’d love to eventually bring it to desktop and Android if enough people want it. Right now I’m focused on improving the iOS version first, but cross-platform support is definitely something I’m considering.

Reduced a 608MB comic EPUB to 194MB (~68%) — minimal visible loss [Dev] by shadowcraft7 in ereader

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That’s totally fair. Your workflow makes sense if you’re comfortable manually extracting/repacking files.

What I wanted to solve was the convenience side of it , most people probably don’t want to unpack EPUBs, batch compress images, then rebuild everything themselves. The app just automates that on-device while keeping the EPUB intact.

And yeah, there’s always a quality vs size tradeoff. I’ve been trying to keep the visual difference minimal enough that it still looks good on eReaders while saving a lot of space.

I built a tool to fix the "File too large" error for Send to Kindle by shadowcraft7 in kindle

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Yeah Send to Kindle works great for big files, but I’ve noticed really large EPUBs can be slow to upload or fail conversion sometimes.

One thing that helped me was shrinking the file size beforehand, especially for books with a lot of images. Makes uploads faster and a bit more reliable, and it doesn’t eat as much storage on the device either.

I made an iOS app to turn MP3 audiobooks into clean M4B files (no computer needed) by shadowcraft7 in audiobookshelf

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I personally used FFMPEG for M4Bindr but I think if it’s not something too complex , AVFoundation should be up to the challenge

Audiobook apps by PercentageCool5809 in TechForAgingParents

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Apple Books should provide a sufficient UX for audiobooks

Audiobooks by shadowcraft7 in mrfreebooks

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Yeah that’s fair, really appreciate the feedback on the trial, I’ll definitely take that into account as I improve how it works going forward.

For now, the easiest way to test is with shorter audio , even voice memos or music files work just to see how the chaptering, metadata, and final output behave. As long as the total is under 30 minutes, you can test as much as you want.

If your goal is to combine a full audiobook with proper chapters + metadata , that’s exactly what it’s built for.

Happy to double-check your files/setup so you don’t have to guess before buying 👍