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Originally Posted by vugtitan
Can you increase the number of books stored on the kindle further by using self extracting compressed books?
compression reduces a text file size by at least 100 times and in winrar,gzip,etc you can create a SELF EXTRACTING OR SELF INFLATING FILE which when received on a recipients pc will inflate to normal readable size in RAM memory even though the recipients pc does NOT have winrar ,etc.
This would mean i could then store 3500x100=350000 books ! Not quite a million but getting there.
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A self-extracting file is nothing more than an executable file which runs the extraction process and outputs the uncompressed file. In order for this to work, the device would have to execute the file. And this opens up a whole new dimension for viruses and other malicious content. Not gonna happen (at least not in the official firmware).
And 100:1 is not realistic. 10:1 is about the maximum you can expect from pure ASCII text compression, and the ebooks usually are not plain text files (i.e., the compression rates would be much smaller).
Personally, I think 3,500 is good enough (even one percent of that would be fine for me, I don't intend to keep my full library on the device).