on 10/27/01 1:18 AM, Bill davis newton at newton_at_mail.ecity.net wrote:
> Now if I can just get Newton ebook makers to compress ebooks as small
> as the Palm does. Most of my ebooks compress to half or less of the
> text file size in PalmDOC format, but the version of PaperBack I have
> seems to make docs that are TWICE the size of the original text file
> (due to Newtons use of Unicode, I assume.)
In a word, yes. Two-byte, vs one byte per character. Ouch.
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