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Originally Posted by SkyDream
Hmmm...having catalogued about 2100 books with calibre the size is only about 5GB. How many book with 64 GB ? Dont think i will ever need that much.
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My ideal ebook reader would contain everything ever published in the English language.
One of the plot elements in Vernor Vinge's recent
Rainbows End (set in 2025) is a project to (destructively-- the technique consists of tossing the books into a industrial-strength shredder connected to a vacuum tube lined with thousands of tiny cameras-- as the fragments tumble down the tube, they are photographed thousands of times and distributed computing networks digitally patch them back together again) digitize every book in a major library-- and the protests against it. In the end (very minor spoiler) the project-- and similar ones done at other libraries-- results in the whole of English literature being made available to everyone on cheap 128PB memory cards.
My ebook library will not be complete until I have that.