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Originally Posted by osnova
LOL. You don't know half of it. It took me forever to upload the dictionary to Amazon. Then their system could not process it. It took them over a month to figure out how to process such a huge file. I was about to give up and just delete this publication.
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I'd like to point out another problem I'm having because of the size of this item: I made the mistake of clicking with the default "Deliver to: Tom's Kindle". I happen to be solidly in a (Sprint) non-3G Whispernet zone, so only have a 50Kbps-100Kbps connection: probably about an 8 hour download, assuming a good connection and no dropoff, which is definitely not the case where I am (it typically fluctuates between 1 and 5 bars over a period of few minutes, assuming the connection doesn't drop entirely - not a problem normally as it only takes 5-10 minutes for even the largest books I've bought previous to this). So it keeps trying to deliver, and failing, and trying again. In the meantime, other items behind it in the delivery queue are held up. Being in this state seems to drain the battery especially quickly.
Unfortunately, having chosen this delivery method, apparently it's not possible to delete it from the delivery queue short of asking for a refund from Amazon (and then purchase again to deliver to my
computer this time). Looks like I'll have to do that, as I would otherwise have to travel 20 miles to a 3G zone and hang out there (for probably the better part of an hour probably?) until the download possibly succeeds in a reasonable amount of time.
In the meantime, I downloaded it to my computer (with 5Mbps connection) and moved it over via USB. I like it! Just looking forward to getting my delivery queue unclogged...
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ALSO, someone on the Amazon Kindle forums mentioned that this was available from the princeton site in prc format, and was only about 20MB. What accounts for the difference in size between that and the edition on Kindle store?
Thanks!