Re: What books have you read recently?
I haven't seen any recent files, but I would be very surprised if a normal ebook, without pictures, was more than a few hundred KB. Text is tiny...really tiny. Another thing I would like to see is a purely ebook publishing company startup that, being solely ebook, would have essentially no distribution costs, and would pass on a higher percentage of the sales to the author. Kind of like the Steam and XBL Indie channels..but for books! :D Hmmm....actually...I wonder what would actually be involved in setting up something like that... :think:
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x88x
I haven't seen any recent files, but I would be very surprised if a normal ebook, without pictures, was more than a few hundred KB. Text is tiny...really tiny. Another thing I would like to see is a purely ebook publishing company startup that, being solely ebook, would have essentially no distribution costs, and would pass on a higher percentage of the sales to the author. Kind of like the Steam and XBL Indie channels..but for books! :D Hmmm....actually...I wonder what would actually be involved in setting up something like that... :think:
Not sure it would work you would have to fight the entire publishing industry... it is a great idea in theory but I see the black robe society of publishers coming down on you hard.
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Snowman
Not sure it would work you would have to fight the entire publishing industry... it is a great idea in theory but I see the black robe society of publishers coming down on you hard.
My tinfoil hat is on extra tight today apparently...
Re: What books have you read recently?
PDF is the only format that I've seen hit around 20mb. Most hit around 1mb through 4mb. I've never seen a book in kb. Maybe if it were entirely written in notepad or something like that.
I have about 1500 ebooks that takes up a little over 5gb. I'm not saying how, though. :p
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While I'm thoroughly enjoying this ebook debate, I feel obligated to steer us back on topic. :P
Recently, I finished reading Tom Clancy's newest novel, Dead or Alive. While a good espionage thriller, it isn't his best work. Before that, I finished re-reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never gets old. Right now, I'm reading Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, which is about how a WWII German U-Boat was discovered off New Jersey in 1991. Believe it or not, it's nonfiction.
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Snowman
My tinfoil hat is on extra tight today apparently...
lol. What are they gonna do, sue me for giving my clients too much money? IDK, it'll probably end up being one of those things that I think of, think "Hey, that's a cool idea, I should do that!", then forget about it and see someone else do it a few years down the road. :P
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Lothair
PDF is the only format that I've seen hit around 20mb. Most hit around 1mb through 4mb. I've never seen a book in kb. Maybe if it were entirely written in notepad or something like that.
I have about 1500 ebooks that takes up a little over 5gb. I'm not saying how, though. :p
Probably have pictures and/or lots of colourful stuff. Years ago I saw a bunch of ebooks (before it was a 'thing' ..wink, wink.. ) circulating as text files, and yeah, in just straight text you can fit a decent sized book in a couple hundred KB. :D All that DRM adds a lot of cruft too.
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I checked one of the larger files and I believe it's some sort of photocopy type of deal. I'm not sure how, though. You can't see any shadows or the binding or anything like that and it looks pristine in quality. But that's my guess. It's definitely a full quality copy, pictures and everything. Otherwise I too would be like WTF? lol
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DynamoNED
While I'm thoroughly enjoying this ebook debate, I feel obligated to steer us back on topic. :P
Recently, I finished reading Tom Clancy's newest novel, Dead or Alive. While a good espionage thriller, it isn't his best work. Before that, I finished re-reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never gets old. Right now, I'm reading Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson, which is about how a WWII German U-Boat was discovered off New Jersey in 1991. Believe it or not, it's nonfiction.
Would we really have missed New Jersey? I enjoy re-reading tolkien and feist all the time although feist I can see being a lot harder read.
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DynamoNED
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never gets old.
Heh, yup. Love those stories. :D
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Lothair
I checked one of the larger files and I believe it's some sort of photocopy type of deal. I'm not sure how, though. You can't see any shadows or the binding or anything like that and it looks pristine in quality. But that's my guess. It's definitely a full quality copy, pictures and everything. Otherwise I too would be like WTF? lol
Yeah, that makes sense. I've done a bit of digitizing and it is really hard to get a good, legible scan and have a very small file size.
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Project Gutenberg. Free books for the taking.
