Thanks for the comments! As a general comment, 10,000 books is not unreasonable for a researcher on the go. If I wanted to call up all the journal articles on
'surface plasmon', I should be able to do so. I would think that medical, engineering, sales, etc. individuals would love to have a searchable reference library at their fingertips.
pdurrant: The number of books per GB is exactly my line of thinking - I thought Amazon's book limits per device were based on available memory, but it would appear that there are other software factors at play as well.
I'll repeat the experiment on my iPad (as soon as I have one). By the way, how does 2,000 books behave for you?
jonas777: On the detail of the process on my
site, I kind of incrementally load the books (5,000 at a time), but each time you eject the Kindle it appears to have to re-index the entire lot, so 100 at a time is rather painful.
lilac_jive: I don't own 10,000 books, but as part of my job, I have a large collection of electronic journal articles, but they are in PDF format and won't fit in the 1.4GB of available memory. For the test, I used a bash script (available on my site) to create 10,000 copies of a one-character book I wrote, since I was really testing if the Kindle could even handle that many 'books'.
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