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Old 11-13-2017, 03:59 PM   #290
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
3000 ebooks in 1GB is rather optimistic since that would require an average size for the ebooks around 330KB. Most of my epub ebook collection are larger than that with some being in the 200-300MB range -- mostly cooking with lots of images and biographies again with lots of images. Eliminating any ebooks over 1MB which wipes out about 33% of my collection leaves an average size of 624KB.
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Originally Posted by rcentros View Post
My point still holds (for me). I currently have probably less than 300 (200?) eBooks all together, split over all three eReader formats (Kindle, Nook and Sony/Kobo). About 1/3 of these are side-loaded. So "only" 1,500 books on 1 GB of RAM would still be more than I'll ever need.

EDIT: After taking a closer look, it appears I have closer to 400 eBooks. About 30 sideloaded to my Nooks.
On my NST w/Glowlight I have 1392 ebooks they take up 906.5 MB on the sd card.


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