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Old 08-20-2010, 04:03 PM   #11
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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.
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.

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