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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
yes, 12mo is a lot... plus i'm discovering this file has all kinds of insane formatting in it and i bet you once i strip that out it will be down to a reasonable size. i'm working on it. i'm doing a search and replace in dreamweaver to get rid of the obnoxious <br style="page-break-after:always" /> which i discovered were after every single word entry (it's a dictionary) ; it's been several minutes and it's still not done. 
after that i'm going after the egregious font tags which are sprinkled liberally throughout it and whatever else i find.  i bet you the finished html file is about 1/3 the original weight. |
I think the weird formatting is the problem not the size or the number of files. I do not use a sd card, but as a test I loaded 1050 books on a 1gb one, mostly lrf's with some pdf's sprinkled around and the 700 had no problems with it after about 2 minutes wait to index the card. I easily and fast navigated the card using both search and touch-jump based on author/title and the side letter, opened several random books, changed font...
As files I tried two 100MB+ pdf's - scan images really dumped in a pdf - and the 700 had no problems accessing or navigating the files.
Currently I am reading a 8MB lrf file - converted from a 8MB bought prc, a recent excellent book about the Nazi-Soviet war with maps, charts, images, footnotes and whatever and I have no problems - fast navigation, easy font change, easy zoom in charts/maps if you wish - I read maybe about 1/3 so far and it works as well as any other lrf book.
I have a 27MB lrf again coming from a prc, this time a biography with pictures, genealogies and such and again no problems reading it on the 700, as well as any pdf's either fiction or science that I tried. Even drm'ed ones from e-NYPL. The only hiccups were some Google pdf's that have pictures not recognized by the 700, but they are not recognized by ADE on my PC either so the problem is on Adobe's side, not on the 700 implementation.
So I think that size is not a problem if the book is properly formatted. Just use Calibre to get a lrf or an e-pub for any non-pdf, do not use rtf or txt directly