Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem
by kragen on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:46PM
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I really appreciate having grayscale or color scans of books rather than bilevel black and white. It's often much easier to read, and often illustrations come out mangled into illegibility by thresholding. Occasionally even text does.
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Re:LibGen's Bloat Problem
by crazygringo on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @12:03PM
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I do too, but I find that they're just too big in file size.
Bilevel at around 300 DPI means scanned books that run 2-5 MB. Grayscale/color tends to mean 10-50 MB.
For me it's less about the storage and more about performance -- for everything from downloading to copying to e-mailing to previews to autosaving while highlighting, apps and cloud services seem to cope well and quickly with 3 MB PDF's, but just seem to slow down dramatically with 30 MB ones.