[Athen] Average Book Volumes

[Pielaet, Jon]

Ron,

 

The file sizes are fairly consistent across different book projects. 

 

A book that is about 300 pages yields these file sizes:

 

16-bit Grayscale TIFF with Metadata   2.58 GB

Rich Text File   1.42 MB*

Word 2003 XML   2.51MB*

DAISY 3 Fileset   1.23MB*

 

* File sizes include added markup.

 

The average delivered file size is around 1-2 MB in RTF or DAISY.

 

Larger books make larger files but even if we process a book that is
three times that size the resulting DAISY fileset should only be about
four or five megabytes.

 

As far as storage, our approach is a simple one. "Get as much as you
can."  We have two terabytes dedicated to storing TIFF and working data
but we aren't using all of it by any measure. 

 

Let me know if you have specific any questions, 

 

 

Jon

 

 

Jon P. Pielaet

Program Assistant for Instructional Materials

Disability Services for Students

Emma B. Lommasson 154

The University of Montana

Missoula, MT 59812

 

www.umt.edu/dss/

 

406-243-2243 Voice/Text

406-243-4461 Direct Line

406-243-5330 Fax

 

 

 

From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org] On
Behalf Of Ron Stewart
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:19 PM
To: 'Access Technology Higher Education Network'
Subject: [Athen] Average Book Volumes

 

Hi folks, I have had a request for some hard  data on average book size
and storage capacities you are using in the more well developed Alt
Format programs.  If you have any aggregate numbers and averages I would
really appreciate any data you can provide me.

 

Ron

 

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Ron Stewart

Managing Consultant

Altformat Solutions LLC

 

8300 West Weller St

Yorktown, IN 47396

Mobile: 609 213-2190

Fax: 765 405-1484

 

ron at altformatsolutions.com

www.altformatsolutions.com

 

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