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cybmole · 02-04-2014, 08:05 AM

there's only 2 ways for data to travel from computer A to computer B. and then be displayed

1 download i.e. copy the whole file
2. streaming, i.e. copy the data a bit at a time, as needed

for a single e-book, I fail to see any circumstance where 2 is better than 1.

I can appreciate wanting to stream a 1Gb video, but why stream a 200kb ebook ???

PS as epub is actually a zipped format, where do you propose the unzipping needed for streaming takes place- how does the target PC get permission to use the source PCs CPU & temp storage etc resources for unzip?

02-04-2014, 08:05 AM	#4
cybmole Wizard Posts: 3,720 Karma: 1759970 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: none	there's only 2 ways for data to travel from computer A to computer B. and then be displayed 1 download i.e. copy the whole file 2. streaming, i.e. copy the data a bit at a time, as needed for a single e-book, I fail to see any circumstance where 2 is better than 1. I can appreciate wanting to stream a 1Gb video, but why stream a 200kb ebook ??? PS as epub is actually a zipped format, where do you propose the unzipping needed for streaming takes place- how does the target PC get permission to use the source PCs CPU & temp storage etc resources for unzip? Last edited by cybmole; 02-04-2014 at 08:08 AM.