[bookport] Re: file transfer time experiment
- From: "LARRY SKUTCHAN" <lskutchan@xxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 11:04:21 -0500
One other point of clarification about large DTBs from Bookshare: It is
usually much quicker to select the braille version of the book. There
are two times you do not want to do this though. One is for the
periodicals and the other is for the technical books from O-reilly.
Both of them contain structure that make the DTB version worth the
wait.
>>> ewers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:50:02 AM >>>
I just sent a 1 megabyte file to the book port in 3 different
formats. The 1 meg file took 4 seconds as a txt file. When I
sent it as a Word file, it took 27 seconds. When I sent it to book
port as an html file from the Windows Explorer "Send to" menu, it took
1.5 minutes. I can't tell you how fast the transfer will be from
within internet explorer itself. I have usually found this method of
transferring html files faster than being in Windows explorer and
sending from the "Send to" menu, but JAWS wouldn't open the 1 megabyte
html file on my hard drive without stalling.
So, the bottom line is, at least in my opinion, txt files are much
quicker and since html files and word files are first transferred to
txt before they are sent from the book port, I often simply do the
transfer to txt in Word or Internet explorer and make the transfer to
book port happen much quicker.
Neal
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