sci_philosophy IlseBrandt-Nakamura A FictionBook With Its Cover Inside It en novus 2026 novus-p7-fb2-cover 1.0 <p>A FictionBook With Its Cover Inside It</p>
<p>One. The Blob at the Bottom</p>

FictionBook has no container, so an image has to live inside the XML itself: base64 in a binary element at the end of the file, referenced by id from a coverpage element in the description.

That makes the cover unavoidable for a parser - it must decode the whole document to reach it - and it makes the file grow by a third of the image's real size.

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