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Originally Posted by dragon77
In any case, yes, exceptional people might read several thousand books in their lifetime. I was just pointing out that for all but the most exceptional, a single SD card can probably hold more than one can expect to read in their life.
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Currently, I have ~1500 hardcover and ~2500 paperback books in my basement library. Not to mention decades of SF and computer magazines. I don't regard myself as that exceptional -- several of my friends have larger collections. One of the first programs I wrote using my old S-100 bus computer was one to manage my book collection which turned out to be a great lesson in why you should comment your code. When I wanted to modify it a year later, I ended up spending most of the time trying to comprehend just what I had done with few comments and with the expletive deleted subroutine names being little help --
corned_beef for a hashing subroutine might have made sense at the time I created it but I had to wonder about naming a subroutine
ivory -- it turned out to be a subroutine that cleaned up deleted entries in an array (ivory = a brand of soap).
Also, most of the larger ebooks I have are not large due to text but rather to the number of illustrations in them.
Regards,
David