How much memory does a book take up?

[philstubbington]

Primarily interested in finding out how much memory a (mostly) textual book would take up. Is there much overhead versus the 'raw' count of lines/words per page? Trying to figure out if it's worth me going for the 64g when it finally gets shipped in Europe.

Thanks.

Phil

 

[mkrishnan]

Are you looking for a general answer, or more specifically to iBooks? Basic eBooks that don't have a lot of rich content are very small -- books in the Kindle store are typically 150-300 kilobytes each (meaning I cannot imagine the likelihood that I will fill my 2GB Kindle before it breaks).

 

[ac4lt]

Primarily interested in finding out how much memory a (mostly) textual book would take up. Is there much overhead versus the 'raw' count of lines/words per page?

The epubs I have vary in size from a few hundred KB to a few MB depending on whether they pure text with a cover image or have images in them.

PDF's seem to range from around 1MB to 4MB.

 

[jeepik]

i have 6 books on my ipad, they take up 23 MB according to Itunes

 

[theman510]

I've found pretty much what everyone else is saying. No more than a few megs max

 

[mcdj]

how big is an mp3? 🙄

 

[philstubbington]

how big is an mp3? 🙄

That's why I asked the question 'per page' - if you have 1000 characters of text, there's some overhead with ePub I would imagine. Otherwise, it would be a very 'how long is a piece of string' question 🙂