With so many great authors self publishing, pricing is more affordable in most cases compared to print books. Kindle books start at the low low price of FREE. You can download them right to your computer or iDevice and read them with a free Kindle App. Flexibility. You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books.That is all you have to do to take care of your Kindle. Connect it to an Amazon account and charge it. What I like most about Kindle and reading Kindle Books: I was slow to move to Kindle reading because I love ink on paper, but now enjoy the advantages of a simple e-reader. We’re big on reading here, but that’s enough to keep us busy for quite some time.I read a combination of ebooks and print books. Divided by our estimate of 2 MB per ebook, that’s 3,115 books! There are 1,000 MB in a GB, which means there are 6,230 MB worth of storage in an 8 GB Kindle. Dividing storage space by average book size. And Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is 588 pages, yet only takes up 2.6 MB.īecause most books are between 300 and 400 pages, we’re estimating 2MB of space per book for this question-but you should know some books that with this page length can take up as much as 5 MB of space, so take that with a grain of salt.ģ. edition) still don’t take up very much space, either-that tome shrinks down to just 3.3 MB on a Kindle. Longer books, like Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (734 pages in the original U.S. And Sally Rooney’s Normal People only takes up 1.5 MB, despite the fact that it’s almost twice the length at 304 pages. And despite varying page counts, they often take up similar amounts of space once compressed into a mobi file for Kindle readers.įor example, Elena Ferrante’s The Lost Daughter is a fairly short book at just 160 pages, and takes up 1.8 MB of space. Most ebook files are very, very small compared to the amount of available space on a Kindle. Determining the average file size of an ebook. But as you’ve seen in the short answer, that’s still a lot of room.Ģ. Almost 2 GB of a Kindle’s space will need to be used for the device’s operating system and other necessary files.įor example, a Kindle Paperwhite with 8 GB really only has about 6.23 GB worth of storage for individual books.
Determining how much space you really have.Īs everyone with a smartphone knows, electronic devices don’t have quite as much storage space available as they advertise. The long answer: Breaking down the short answer.ġ.
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