Example: I have a book which I wanna archive. Would sending a zip with the pages take less storage than sending the, let’s say, 10 individual pages sparatedly?

  • Meow-Misfit@lemmy.worldOP
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    11 hours ago

    Example: Book A I have all 10 pages of it in a jpg each.

    Let’s say the size of all these 10 pages togheter is 300MB (not tech savy, don’t know if this is realistic).

    If I put them on a zip, will the size be smaller? Like, reduce to 250MB or something?

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      10 hours ago

      For images it may be better but images are already compressed so there may not be a large saving in zipping them.

      Alternative options would be to use more storage efficient formats like webp for instance.