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I moved from a K1 to a K3, so I am enjoying Collections. I haven't accumulated very many books on my kindle yet -- maybe only about 50-60 plus about 50 samples. I suppose when I start reaching several hundred I will have to think seriously about a back up strategy. |
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I think that's something that really surprised me about e-books. I was so used to digital pictures taking up so much space on my computer, I kind of assumed books would take up a lot of space, too. A book that is only text is very small. The larger ones in my library have photos or illustrations. |
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With all digital possessions I now back things up to an external harddrive and I subscribe to a backup service (I use Mozy). Costs about 5$ a month but it autobacks up any directories I tell it to and I have unlimited storage space. ![]() I have never had to restore anything so I can't comment on how easy or well it will work but Mozy had good reviews. I can comment that the backup program works well and they have no problems taking 5$ out of my account each month. ![]() As for my Kindle, I probably have about 25 full books on there (most of them daily freebies from Amazon) and probably 10 samples. Currently I am reading two of the books (one fiction and one non-fiction) and my wife is reading another book. The rest just sit there. |
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I believe that if you read it closely you will find it says approx. 3500 books.
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And then we will all sue Jeff Bezos, the lawyers will settle for a million dollars each, and we will get a coupon for a dollar off the next e-book we buy.
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compression reduces a text file size by at least 100 times and in winrar,gzip,etc you can create a SELF EXTRACTING OR SELF INFLATING FILE which when received on a recipients pc will inflate to normal readable size in RAM memory even though the recipients pc does NOT have winrar ,etc. This would mean i could then store 3500x100=350000 books ! Not quite a million but getting there. |
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I once put 900 books on my Kindle 2, but that makes searching very, very slow. For some reason a search does not look at title's only, but actually searches through all the pages in all the books.
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As a test I checked volume 1 of History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon. Plain text size: 1614KB, rar size: 496KB, ratio: 30% Mobi size: 1217KB, rar size: 952KB, ratio: 78% |
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And 100:1 is not realistic. 10:1 is about the maximum you can expect from pure ASCII text compression, and the ebooks usually are not plain text files (i.e., the compression rates would be much smaller). Personally, I think 3,500 is good enough (even one percent of that would be fine for me, I don't intend to keep my full library on the device). |
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but what is stop me from compressing the compressed file over and over again until is down to the 100 ratio to 1 or even using fractal compression? in theory you could keep compressing it down until it is just down to just a few bytes. remember how in the big bank the entire universe was formed from a single ultra dense super compressed single particle ? Similarly we could do the same with information. Last edited by vugtitan; 09-07-2010 at 12:50 PM. |
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kindle 3 max. 3gb oder max. 3500 bücher | kakakanno | Amazon Kindle | 8 | 08-22-2010 03:27 AM |