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Originally Posted by eschwartz
Standard textbooks that are PDFs? What size do they average?
The 1100-3500 estimation is based on a reasonable 1MB-per-book estimate, which is a little on the large side... for books that are mostly text, which is where e-ink ereaders excel.
Anything larger than 1MB should probably be read on a tablet, unless it is simply one of those giant omnibus/collections that are tens of megabytes simply because they contain 50 books or so -- those are, technically, 50 books in one file.  |
This might give you an idea of how PDFs stack up against the other formats size wise:
I have an ebook from Project Gutenburg of "The Adventures Of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi. As an epub it is 98KB, as a plain text it is 221KB, and as a PDF it is 751KB. Based on the above, I wouldn't be surprised if many textbook PDFs exceed 1MB.