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bmacaskill · 09-17-2010, 06:36 PM

Someone was asking about the storage capacity of the K3.

When attached as a drive, Windows 7 says the K3 has 3.05 GB.

My 20 .mobi books (I also have several Calibre-generated newspaper and magazine entries, but I'll assume their impact is negligible) take up 32.5 MB. The K3 indexes for that content take up another 12 MB. (Windows 7 says only 45.2 MB is used.)

That works out to roughly (there seems to be very little system-related overhead) 1.6 MB per book (given the size of the particular books I have loaded), and another 0.6 MB per book for indexing. Total: 2.2 MB per book.

That looks like: 3,123 MB storage / 2.2 MB per book = 1,412 books per K3.

So it seems likely that the K3 can store 3,500 smaller books ;-)

Estimated, my number makes sense to me: if you've got 3,000 MB storage, and a book is only 2 MB (and that has been me experience with my other ereader), and even if indexing adds another 50%, you're still talking about 3,000/3=1,000.

09-17-2010, 06:36 PM	#1
bmacaskill Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 1134 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: London, ON Device: Kobo, Kindle 3	Kindle 3 "disk" size Someone was asking about the storage capacity of the K3. When attached as a drive, Windows 7 says the K3 has 3.05 GB. My 20 .mobi books (I also have several Calibre-generated newspaper and magazine entries, but I'll assume their impact is negligible) take up 32.5 MB. The K3 indexes for that content take up another 12 MB. (Windows 7 says only 45.2 MB is used.) That works out to roughly (there seems to be very little system-related overhead) 1.6 MB per book (given the size of the particular books I have loaded), and another 0.6 MB per book for indexing. Total: 2.2 MB per book. That looks like: 3,123 MB storage / 2.2 MB per book = 1,412 books per K3. So it seems likely that the K3 can store 3,500 smaller books ;-) Estimated, my number makes sense to me: if you've got 3,000 MB storage, and a book is only 2 MB (and that has been me experience with my other ereader), and even if indexing adds another 50%, you're still talking about 3,000/3=1,000.