08-16-2019, 05:51 PM | #1 |
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32gb Storage - Why
For those of you with 32gb Kindles; what you use all that storage for? I have thousands of books in my library and all told, it's only about 7gb.
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08-16-2019, 06:24 PM | #2 |
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Manga is very popular, and takes up more space than regular books.
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08-16-2019, 06:27 PM | #3 |
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Yes it slows it down. I mostly notice it when calibre is updating metadata and whatnot on the ereader. Also after a book is added and the ereader updates its database.
My impression is that the 32gb is useful for those who read comics on them. The Oasis also lets you listen to audio books; could be helpful in that case as well. The difference in size between kindle ebooks and epub ebooks is significant because epubs are compressed with zip while kindle ebooks are not. So it might be more helpful with kindle ebooks. |
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Secret spy stuff. I can stuff the kindle's memory chock full of state or company secrets and get through security at the airport without a hassle. No one looks twice at an ereader any more...
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08-16-2019, 10:53 PM | #6 |
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Manga and Audible audiobooks. Lots of us use Whispersync which allows switching between ebooks and audiobooks (using a bluetooth device).
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08-17-2019, 12:51 AM | #7 |
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Really? I just tried zipping an azw3 file and it reduced the size by ~15%. Since it's mostly text and a few images I'd expect a bigger reduction if the original wasn't at least partly compressed.
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It is compressed, just not as efficiently as zip when it comes to file size. If it means better performance, then I take the slightly bigger azw3 over an epub any day. The only advantage of a drm-free epub is that you can simply open it with any unzip tool and then edit it. The azw3 does not look like a epub file internally. It looks like it when you open it with calibre, but all those "files" have to be generated. In an epub the files are physically there in the zip container.
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Usage : kindlegen [filename.opf/.htm/.html/.epub/.zip or directory] [-c0 or -c1 or c2] [-verbose] [-western] [-o <file name>] Note: zip formats are supported for XMDF and FB2 sources directory formats are supported for XMDF sources Options: -c0: no compression -c1: standard DOC compression -c2: Kindle huffdic compression |
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08-17-2019, 11:57 AM | #12 |
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Manga as mentioned and some just want 32gb. I personally would never use it. Probably not even 8.....at my point in life I don't even know how many books are left in me. Maybe 200 tops....lol
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I'm guessing that Project Gutenberg makes their kindle books without compression; the difference in sizes is noticeable there. Presumably theirs are dual MOBI since they don't offer AZW3 downloads. |
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kindleunpack -s My turn to be too lazy to check. I predict that even if newer files are dual MOBI, those that predate KF8 have not been updated to dual MOBI. |
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