3500 Books??? Really? - Page 5

vugtitan · 09-10-2010, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by desertblues

Dear Vugtitan. Nice try; but I loaded all the books with my fingers crossed, as I wrecked another ereader(iLiad) a few months ago with my inexperienced experiments. For which I still am sad/mad, also because iRex went broke and it can't be fixed.
I'm now through with loading my books (1534). It works like this: 200 or 300 per batch through Calibre---let the K3 rest a night for indexing and reloading.
When sorting the books in collections: I've experienced that the K3 doesn't crash, but that the option ' add/remove titels' disappears-----then let it rest for an hour while reloading, and then it's fine.
Calibre crashed twice while processing my books; that is, while it searched for metadata in bulk. So I guess it isn't my PC that is the problem.
But, apart from the browser, that keeps freezing on me when I use it outside of my home, I'm satisfied with the K3. Although I'll mail Amazon whether I need to install the new update.

did you not copy/paste the VITAL files on the irex and illiad to your pc before you copy/pasted your books to it?

why don't you just re-format the IREX and Iliad 's flash memory and reset/restore it?

i bet i could fix it easily.

DMB · 09-11-2010, 09:20 AM

Can someone please advise me about large PDFs? I downloaded 3 volumes of Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (all about 50 Mb each) onto my computer desktop. I then transferred them successfully onto the Kindle 3 by dragging but I couldn't drag them onto the Kindle for PC. I haven't had this problem with other stuff.

TheKindleWorm · 09-11-2010, 09:39 AM

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Originally Posted by DMB

Can someone please advise me about large PDFs? I downloaded 3 volumes of Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (all about 50 Mb each) onto my computer desktop. I then transferred them successfully onto the Kindle 3 by dragging but I couldn't drag them onto the Kindle for PC. I haven't had this problem with other stuff.

I didn't think Kindle for PC supported PDF files ? Or perhaps I'm wrong on that.

HarryT · 09-11-2010, 10:02 AM

No, I don't believe it does. Why not just read them in Adobe Reader?

vugtitan · 09-11-2010, 03:36 PM

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Originally Posted by wesleyer

You realize you would still have to keep all those files, right ?
It does not matter whether you just compress the dictionary for the second pass, in order to retrieve the original file the first compressed file would still be required.

As Tiersten pointed out, if your method worked you could compress anything to one bit. So, I'll give you one bit: 1.
Now tell me: which book this one bit decompresses to ? Is it the Bible ? Is it the newest Stieg Larsson novel ? Is it a treatise on Information Theory ?
Don't you realize you can't get all that information from a single bit ?

Take a look at this: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression...section-8.html

i thought and i thought and i thunk and i thunked and think i solved it!

I THINK I HAVE SOLVED IT!

Eureka!

you take the dictionary (1 megabyte ) of the file you have just compressed (eg 10 megabytes) and you then lay it out in a table or graphic format , etc.

And then you take a snapshot of it in jpg format.

thus you have a jpg file which represents the 1 megabyte dictionary which in turn represents the original file.

The jpg file will only be a 100 kilobytes or so for a decent picture of the dictionary tables.

What do you think?

SpeckledJim · 09-11-2010, 03:51 PM

I'm thinking there isn't a face-palm picture big enough.

kacir · 09-11-2010, 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by vugtitan

i thought and i thought and i thunk and i thunked and think i solved it!

I THINK I HAVE SOLVED IT!
...
What do you think?

I think, it is obvious now, that you are making fun of us!

Chumnutzly · 09-12-2010, 01:44 AM

Well, I have about 2600 books on my Kindle right now, and its still indexing, so performance isn't wonderful, but it isn't terrible either. Like it was mentioned before, I don't think its much of an issue once you get done indexing.

vugtitan · 09-12-2010, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by kacir

I think, it is obvious now, that you are making fun of us!

i thought and i thought and i thunk and i thunked and think i solved it!

That is a line from a Moonlighting episode in which David Addison's brother Richard turns up and is trying to sell diet products.

See it on youtube...it is a classic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ybh0AV5GrWc

but what about my idea above?

JMikeD · 09-12-2010, 10:54 AM

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wesleyer · 09-13-2010, 10:43 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vugtitan

you take the dictionary (1 megabyte ) of the file you have just compressed (eg 10 megabytes) and you then lay it out in a table or graphic format , etc.

And then you take a snapshot of it in jpg format.

thus you have a jpg file which represents the 1 megabyte dictionary which in turn represents the original file.

The jpg file will only be a 100 kilobytes or so for a decent picture of the dictionary tables.

What do you think?

Well, you are most certainly just trolling, but here it goes anyway:

1 - I don't think are going to get a 100 KB picture of a 1 MB text unless you seriously compromise the image quality, which leads to
2 - You will have to pass the image through an OCR process to get the dictionary, and OCR is not always accurate (and heavily depends on the image quality)
3 - As I said before, it's not enough to preserve the dictionary alone. You have to keep the compressed file as well.

DMB · 09-14-2010, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by HarryT

No, I don't believe it does. Why not just read them in Adobe Reader?

I want to be able to read and refer to them on the Kindle. I thought the advantage of Kindle for PC was that you could swop between one and the other.

dougmwpsu · 09-14-2010, 11:48 PM

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Originally Posted by wesleyer

As Tiersten pointed out, if your method worked you could compress anything to one bit. So, I'll give you one bit: 1.
Now tell me: which book this one bit decompresses to ? Is it the Bible ? Is it the newest Stieg Larsson novel ?[/url]

Actually, here's the next Stieg Larsson novel compressed to a single bit: 0.

HarryT · 09-15-2010, 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by DMB

I want to be able to read and refer to them on the Kindle. I thought the advantage of Kindle for PC was that you could swop between one and the other.

Only for books that you've bought from Amazon. You don't get synchronization for your own content.

namebrandon · 09-15-2010, 09:43 AM

935 here. Took a while to load (~12 hours), but that was because Calibre had to convert them all to .mobi. Indexing took another 8-9 hours and just about a full charge.

Searching now is something I avoid. I'll hit page forward 40 times to find a book long before I try a search.

09-15-2010, 09:43 AM	#75
namebrandon Connoisseur Posts: 60 Karma: 126972 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Chicago Device: Kindle WiFi	935 here. Took a while to load (~12 hours), but that was because Calibre had to convert them all to .mobi. Indexing took another 8-9 hours and just about a full charge. Searching now is something I avoid. I'll hit page forward 40 times to find a book long before I try a search. Attached Thumbnails

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