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Originally Posted by axel77
For me its hardly useless. First a scanned 350 page book is aprox. 15 MB not 100 with pretty good quality. If its more you are doing something wrong in scanning/compressing  (see the content forum, posted recently the script I'm using).
I have now a 1GB MMC Card, that is 66 Books per 15$ card. Hardly useless. I just ordered a 8GB CF card for 60$. It will fit 500 scanned books, or what I'm aiming more for 1 complete Wikipedia and 250 scanned books. |
well, yes.. i'm not so much talking about the memory requirements (that's a secondary issue imo, although scrolling through scanned (non-ocr) pdfs in adobe takes lots and lots of CPU) as i am talking about the fact that you can't search for words/word groups in such a document. also (this is mostly relevant to students wanting to read their books on the thing, i imagine, as you can probably do it 'yourself' in most decent-sized companies) actually scanning the books isn't something you can do easily.