On 10/12/2011 07:43 PM, Zara Baxter wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Marcello Perathoner <marcello@perathoner.de> wrote:
My vision is to have every gadget on this earth sold preloaded with a corpus of the world's finest literature, in all languages.
The only problem with this vision is that it's not what people want.
Speaking with the head of Kobo last week, he says that they no longer put free books onto their devices, because too many people complained that it took up the space they wanted for their own choice of books. Most people just wanted to delete them immediately.
The Kobo is a lowest end machine with just 1 GB free. To implement my vision, some time will pass, and with memory doubling every 1.5 years, the smallest iPhone you will buy in 5 years will have 128 GB. All PG Epubs without images take up 6 GB. (+ 15 GB with images) How was that about taking too much space? In 10 years the smallest iPhone you can buy will have 1 TB. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org