Wait, what? [LWN.net]

Wait, what?

Posted Oct 14, 2009 3:55 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (guest, #15888)
In reply to: Wait, what? by nybble41
Parent article: WikiReader: OpenMoko's "Project B"

The website mentions a 4+ GB file if you want to download updates. (Download to your own MicroSD card and then swap them, there's no d/l capability in the WikiReader itself.)

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Wait, what?

Posted Oct 15, 2009 1:22 UTC (Thu) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link]

It looks like they used a 4GB microSD card, but only included a subset of the articles (about 3 million). Given that my stripped-down version had over twice that many (6,044,424 inodes, most of them articles), and that the full HTML almost certainly takes up more space than their custom-preprocessed pages, the difference in size is understandable. On the other hand, unless their selection criteria is way off, the other couple million articles probably won't be missed; at least half of them are probably stubs, advertisements, or niche fan-pages.