On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Aaron Cannon wrote:
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That's a possibility, but I don't think it really solves the problem. We would just be forcing an arbitrary number of ebooks onto a dvd. Even with a better compression algorithm, we would soon run into the same problem of not enough space. I think it makes more sense to compile a DVD containing the first 5000 books, and another containing the next 5000 or less.
Other thoughts or opinions?
Sincerely Aaron Cannon
There are already DVDs out there containing from ~10,000 to ~40,000 eBooks, and this is only using single-sided single-layered $1 blank DVDs. The newer DVD burners will put twice as much on a single DVD, dual-layered, but the media is still going to be expensive until/unless they catch on. However, several new DVD formats are on the way that should make all this a moot point, as the entire Project Gutenberg collection should fit on a single one of the DVDs [other than the Human Genome, etc.]. Personally, I am happy for anyone to put together any eBook collections on DVD and get them out to people any way they can. Again my HUGE thanks!!! Michael
At 04:27 AM 9/14/2005, you wrote:
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:10:50PM -0500, Aaron Cannon wrote:
Well, the complete collection of zip files from DP total 5GB. So, it would be too big for a dvd-5, but might fit on a dvd-9.
Suggestion: see how much better other compression algorithms do (eg: bzip2) The binaries can be included on the DVD for various systems, they are small in comparison.
Samely, for XML books (let's assume in the end all books will be XML'ed), just consider the source XML version (bzipped); XML to other format tools can be included on the DVD too. _______________________________________________ gutvol-d mailing list gutvol-d@lists.pglaf.org http://lists.pglaf.org/listinfo.cgi/gutvol-d
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