book chunking keyhole
"Balog Pal" <[email protected]> Sat, 4 Oct 2003 00:18:02 +0100
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http://search.safaribooksonline.com it is an e-library, you can read books, online. [currently it has a month free trial] The content of the books I read into is split to very small chunks. With physical books the content of a page is limited -- for an E-book i found a convenient chunk is some 3-10 printed book pages big. That pretty well maps to chapters or items of a regular book. Here on safari chunks are way smaller. Closer to a single page -- some just have a few lines. On top of that the site is pretty slow, and is is surrounded by the site's framework, so a web page is 50k (only the html text, not counting pictures, etc), and that holds around 1k of the real stuff I'm there for. [I saw chunks having as much as 2 lines of text.] Huge waste of technical and human resources. I find it extremely annoying to read, use, navigate that way, really like reading the book through a keyhole. Paul