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Originally Posted by jbenny
Actually, some people do need to carry around a lot of books. I am thinking technical documentation, not fiction. This supposes that you can get your technical documentation in a form that is readable on the Sony or other ebook device.
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Which is in part what I do. I have all of the Linux HOW-TOs, a good bit of the Gnu docs and a chunk of other references in converted HTML format on my PDA, plus a chunk of Sun's documentation in PDFs.
All told, I probably have about 3,000 ebooks in different formats on my PDA, mostly in Plucker, but in eReader, MobiPocket, PDF, RTF, and text format as well. The collection takes about 1.5GB of a 2GB SD card. I can upgrade to a 4GB card when required. (Plucker docs are stored in a gzip compatible compressed format and decompressed as read, else I'd already
have a 4GB card...)
Since there is no reason I
can't carry my entire eBook library, I do. Why bother selecting and maintaining a current subset when you can take along all of it?
For me, high capacity to store ebooks on device
is a feature.
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Dennis