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Originally Posted by mike_bike_kite
The average size of an ebook is somewhere between 300K and 1MB (say 0.5MB to make maths easy). Your 2GB would equate to approx 4000 books. This means you paid $0.05 on average for each of your books. Obviously if you just read pre 1920's literature or modern SciFi / Romance novels from mostly unknown authors then you can get your books for free and this would reduce the total cost considerably. If you want to read anything approaching a best seller then the cost per ebook is going to be way higher than $0.05.
PDF files containing lots of images will be larger than my average figure above but these aren't typical of what's on most ereaders. I guess if you have lots of graphic novels then that would fill 2GB quite quickly. Most books however are TXT, EPUB or MOBI and these are reasonably small. I can't find any details on an average price for a modern ebook but $7 seems close. So to fill your 2GB with 4000 books, at $7 each, it comes to around $28000.
I'm generalising a lot and there will always be exceptions - you're obviously an exception  |
I rather think that the $28000 price would be an exception.
But the point here is not the price of ebooks but how reasonable the amount of memory in an ereader is. I do have a couple of ebooks with images which grows the size considerably. I also have quite a number of newspaper issues, which come at approx. 1.5MB each. These were also offered as a trial subscription, otherwise I would have spent something like €200 more. I also have several ebooks that were offered free for a limited time, including bestselling authors like Tess Gerritsen, Paolo Coelho, Steve Berry and Larry Niven, a few (also free) audiobooks which come at 80MB each.
So my point is, it is not difficult to fill 2GB without downloading illegal stuff and without spending an extreme amount of money.