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Originally Posted by Faterson
I think Kris mentioned in the Marvin thread it was a Dropbox limit.
As to space issues, when it comes to old books, I prefer reading them in photographed PDF editions, and those can be extremely hungry in terms of megabytes.  I'd prefer to read all books in EPUB in Marvin only, but I hate modernized editions, and modern EPUB editions of old classics tend to be sloppy. My no. 1 favourite writer is probably Leo Tolstoy, and his literary output was prodigious (dozens of volumes), so the Count on his own can devour a couple of PDF gigabytes of your quota. But, nothing beats reading Anna Karenina (or should I say Анна Каренина) exactly in the same 19th century original Russian edition as it appeared to a reader who purchased it during Tolstoy's lifetime. I wish there was reliable OCR software that could convert old editions into high-quality EPUBs without too much hassle, but even the best current OCR software, which I think is FineReader, is struggling with this. |
Given how hungry pdfs are for space, I am simply not up there with you, Faterson. If I wanted to read an original or old book in its close-to-native state, I'd get the actual book. Could certainly not be fussed doing as you do, and I detest pdf, and only read in that format if forced to do so... Now I see why Dropbox isn't enough space for you. You must need terabytes!!