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Old 11-16-2017, 01:16 PM   #321
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Originally Posted by DNSB View Post
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.
--Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
In order to fit 3,000 eBooks in 1GB (is it 1024x1024 or is it 1,000,000)? you would need an average of 349.5 bytes for all the eBooks and if 1GB = 1,000,000 then the average would be 333.33 bytes. Not gonna happen in either case.
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