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Originally Posted by montsnmags
My ebooks, thus far, still all fit inside the internal memory of an Iliad. Most of it is public domain "Classics" (from MR, of course), and there's likely enough there to last me the rest of my lifetime. If I was looking at pdfs or books with pictures, of course, things might be a lot different. As for music, well, for me, it's "portable" music - I'm not after the ultimate in quality. To be honest, while I enjoy music from a good system setup, if it's good music I could enjoy it from an old transistor radio (our minds are pretty fantabulous at filling in the gaps in our senses).
Saying all this, I'm making assumptions. If I looked at it more personally (ie. at yourself, Dennis), it would not surprise me in the least if you used the same "compression" and types of texts/music, but just had absolute shed-loads more of the stuff than I do.  |
I have about 3,500 ebooks on my device. About 3,200 are HTML converted for use with the Plucker offline HTML viewer for Palm OS. Plucker supports files using gzip compatible compression, for about 70% space reduction. It supports color, embedded images, text attributes, fonts (on OS 5 systems) and hyperlinks.
I have about 1.75 GB of ebooks total on my device. There are also an assortment of Mobi and eReader files, plus some PDFs, Word and RTF files, and plain text files. all are PD, CC licensed, or other files that may be explicitly copied and shared. I'll actually
buy ebooks when the format and DRM choices simplify.
I can use it as a photo viewer as well, but normally don't. It also holds a gig or so of video, playable with The Core Pocket Media Player.
While it can play MP3 and Ogg files, I don't. Like my ebooks, I want to carry my entire music library. Before I suffered a nasty hardware failure, I had a 200GB drive devoted to MP3s that was full, and was filling another drive. No way
that fits on any handheld I've seen.
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I was tempted by a Palm TX prior to the Iliad. I'm glad I was tempted by the Iliad - the Iliad is perfect for my everyday use (which is basically nightly and visits to my brother's place some weekends), and the iPod Touch (with the expanding number of apps) is now the kind of thing that can be my "go-everywhere". It's currently got my shopping list on it (we need milk, mixed leaf lettuce, and bread, and I'm just about out the door), and I'm just waiting for a nice app to come out for "meter-free" camera exposure estimating (I've a couple all-manual cameras without or with broken meters)...and a sunrise/sunset app would be nice (incl. direction)...and a hyperfocal/DoF calculator...and...
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The TX wasn't available when my old TE was dying and I went looking for a replacement. I'm happy I wound up with what I did. The NVFS implementation on the TX is quirky and hard to get stable, the 128MB of memory isn't all RAM, and the built-in Wifi isn't something I would use often enough to make it compelling. (I have a Wifi SD card for the Zodiac. I seldom use it.) The Zodiac has 128MB of real RAM,
two SD slots, plus Bluetooth, Yamaha stereo sound, and an ATI graphics chip with 2D acceleration and 8MB of onboard RAM. TCPMP supports the Zodiac video, anf TCPMP is the "killer app" for the platform.
The iLiad is neat, but I need color, and a broader range of capabilities.
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Dennis