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davidfor · 07-31-2016, 08:12 PM

mariaclaudia sent me a copy of the book. It is appears to be a collection, in Spanish, of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Each story is a separate file and there are 309 chapters. There are five seven small images plus a 115KB cover. As the file is 3.7MB in size, the rest is words.

The problem is in the word counting. It gets there eventually. I did it twice last night, once took about 35 minutes, the second time took about 57 minutes. When I did a page count only, it took less than five minutes. This is on a i7 laptop with 16GB of memory. It sat there all that time using a full CPU. From memory, there were about 1.5million words. I assume the problem is the large number of relatively small files. But, I'm sure I have a bigger book with more parts in it that doesn't take as long. I'll have to do some experimenting to see what's happening.

07-31-2016, 08:12 PM	#906
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	mariaclaudia sent me a copy of the book. It is appears to be a collection, in Spanish, of short stories by Isaac Asimov. Each story is a separate file and there are 309 chapters. There are five seven small images plus a 115KB cover. As the file is 3.7MB in size, the rest is words. The problem is in the word counting. It gets there eventually. I did it twice last night, once took about 35 minutes, the second time took about 57 minutes. When I did a page count only, it took less than five minutes. This is on a i7 laptop with 16GB of memory. It sat there all that time using a full CPU. From memory, there were about 1.5million words. I assume the problem is the large number of relatively small files. But, I'm sure I have a bigger book with more parts in it that doesn't take as long. I'll have to do some experimenting to see what's happening.