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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What I was proving is that 3,000 eBooks will not fit in 1GB. Also, the size of eBook vary and eBooks these days do sometimes have a high-res cover as well as a high-res title page. Plus, if there are other graphics, the size is not that small. Add in embedded fonts and the size goes up. So really, you cannot say X amount of eBooks fit in 1GB with such a high number. You may get a decent amount and you may not. It's a crap shoot.
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The problem is that it is just as easy to select 3000 ebooks that would fit into 1GB so there is no "proving" either way. I have quite a few larger books that would not allow me even having 10 on 1GB but I also have a mass of smaller ebooks (novellas, fanfic, etc.) that are less than 200K so in theory, I could fit 4000+ ebooks into 1GB.
Instead of a crapshoot, I think of this quote from Terry Pratchett:
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who
smiles all the time.
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Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch