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Originally Posted by twowheels
If it needs 1GB for its own use after you've filled 3GB of the user space then they should partition the file system and only mount the user space when it's plugged in. That also means that they should be advertising it as a 3 GB device, not 4.
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They do, pay attention.
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Holds Over 3,500 Books
The ultimate travel companion, Kindle weighs 8.5 ounces and holds up to 3,500 books. No longer pick and choose which books fit in your carry-on. You can always have your entire Kindle library with you.
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4GB internal (approximately 3GB available for user content).
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You actually get 3.2gb of internal space, and that's not the 3.2gb before formatting, that's actually 3.2gb of usable space after a usable file system is in place.
I know the first thing I did was look @ the features list, and then scroll down to the technical details. I was disappointed that my DXG didn't have an SD slot, but 3gb is still a lot of room for ebooks, even pdfs rarely go over 15mb unless they are pirated scans.
Note that most books are ~ 500k-1mb, so after indexing we'll assume the average 200-300 page novel is 1mb. They assume that the average consumer doesn't know what a MB/GB is or how big an ebook will be. Similarly to how music players/media players can hold 2000 "songs."
AS far as downloading other files via webbrowser, can't you just make your server repackage the files in an archive and rename it to .zip.mobi, and then have a kindle script/kindlet extract the .zip.mobi files. I'm pretty sure the browser would be stupid enough to download them. My 2c. I'd use an archive because text documents can be compressed quite a bit, but you could just straight rename them... Myfile.pdf.mobi or if the double dots confuse it...
have some php script that serves your files like so:
myfile.pdf -> myfile_-typepdf.mobi
download file
basic script that replaces "_-typepdf.mobi" -> .pdf
use whatever string you want really, I bet it would work.
Also, can you use other tools such as ftp/telnet/wget on the kindle to get files over wlan? Haven't tried.