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Originally Posted by Fiat_Lux
People carrying around their 21,941 volume Project Gutenburg collection in a 16 GB microSD card probably is the exception, rather than the rule.
The more common occurance is the on-the-spot in the middle of nowhere reference library, with a 627 volume reference library that takes up 5.23 GB, or, for an "extreme case" the ten volume reference library that takes up 4.5 GB.
My rant is that talking about the number of books a reader can hold, without giving the actual amount of storage is incredibly misleading. it's like the time a friend of mine was excited, because she was told that the mp3 player could hold twenty-five songs. Except, it barely could hold one song that she listened to --- a full length opera.
When sales droids tell me the number of books a device can hold, I just sweetly ask if that means that I could have all of the term papers my ex wrote during her art history course on it. The one on Vincent was only 5 GB in size.
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Very well then:
1500/32000 books is estimated at ~800KB-1MB per book, which is about average for novels and suchlike.
Leaving aside books with high-quality maps/other images, comic books which are just a bunch of images to begin with, etc. -- plain text alone is extremely compact in memory footprints.
I would posit that people wishing to carry around 5GB term papers, is yet another one of those exceptions.
Reference libraries -- what do you mean by that? I assume likewise that people carrying around encyclopedias and factbooks are yet more exceptions.
All my arguments start with the assumption that we are talking about the average use-case of ereaders, which is someone wanting to read their extensive collection of novels.
I freely admit that, say, readers of comic books should be looking for a device with more storage. (Edge case devices for edge case users.)
P.S. Most people understand "songs" to be the common understanding of what a song is, the common form of a song, that is to say, 3-minute clips. Your friend, being the unusual type, has a responsibility to translate from typicality to her use-case.