Maximum number of pages in Chapter? iBA crash and time out issue.

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to put together a book with roughly 17,000 pages where each page is a single full page image displayed inline and is between 2 and 3 kb.. Preferably these would all be in a single chapter, but I run in to issues with this at around 2,000 pages. iBA will crash and when I try to reopen the file it will either time out or take several minutes.
Dividing my book in to chapters with around 250 pages each keeps iBA from crashing, but unfortunately the chapter structure doesn't make sense for the book.
To try to help iBA to run smoothly I've right clicked on the application icon, selected "get info" and then checked the box next to "run at low resolution". I've also disabled the display of thumbnail previews of pages in the app.
Is there anything else I can do to make iBA run faster? (Can I allocate more memory to it somehow?)
Is there a way to combine chapters?
Also, if anyone has ideas of ways to structure my pages that might use less memory than displaying my images inline, I'd be open to hearing that too.
Any help or suggestions are very much appreciated.
Thanks

Answer 1

A finished, exported iBooks file to be uploaded to the store...is limited to 2 gigabyte file size..whatever your content.
If your computer is running slow, you need to close all applications not needed.
Also when creating a large book file, its advisable to create chapters individually...giving a more manageable work file.
Create a master template  and open..save the book as a master copy and save it. Open a copy of..the master copy snd name it ..say Chapter one...and repeat as needed. when done, copy the chapters from 2 onwards into the chapter one book, if needed, drag and drop the chapters up or down the tree to get the right order.