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Originally Posted by wesleyer
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).
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i tried it with winrar and i managed to get a 400kb text file down to 100k.
but what is stop me from compressing the compressed file over and over again until is down to the 100 ratio to 1 or even using fractal compression?
in theory you could keep compressing it down until it is just down to just a few bytes.
remember how in the big bank the entire universe was formed from a single ultra dense super compressed single particle ?
Similarly we could do the same with information.