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Originally Posted by fsvum
so why not on an ereader? 6GB is nothing.
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The Nook only has approximately 1GB of, the Sony PRS-T1 has 1.3 GB and the Kindle Touch has 3 GB available for user content. The Nook and PRS both allow for user expandable memory but the Kindle does not. I realize the Kindle is not an EPUB device but these three are the most popular on the market and as you can see e-ink devices are storage space constrained.
You're as Serpentine said an EPUB this large would need to be using Zip64 which I highly doubt most devices support.
In addition to being space constrained many devices are memory constrained too. This is why people talk about that magical 260k maximum XHTML section size. While each article can be broken down the OPF has to list each and every part and it cannot be larger than 260k. Listing potentially millions of pieces is going to make the OPF very larger and possibly too large for the reader to be able to load.