My initial impetus to get an iPad was to create a library of my PDF documents. I have operated, essentially, in a digital environment since 2003. Thus, the ability to have easy access to ALL documents, in a fashion that would be easily searchable, is very compelling to me. That simple thought pushed me down a road that has literally branched off in hundreds of directions over the last year.
However, I have found in numerous discussions with iPad owners that this concept is less understood (the perceived value is not as high). In a presentation that I put together, I highlighted five "documents" that I have included in my iPad document library. Those five are reference books that I want to have immediate access to.
Here they are:
1. Technical accounting research document regarding accounting for derivative financial instruments (620 pages).
2. Excel 2007 Bible – reference (914 pages)
3. Access 2007 Inside and Out – reference (1,464 pages)
4. Apple “Final Cut Pro” User Manual (2,033 pages)
5. Adobe Acrobat 9 Bible – reference (1,298 pages)
In total, these "documents" account for 6,329 pages of material, which consume a total storage space of 180 megabytes. 180 mg is 18% of 1 gig, and 1 gig is 1.6% of 64 gig (the largest iPad currently available). Thus, five rather large books take up only 0.28% of the total capacity. Assuming you had 25 times this amount of material, you would still only use up approximately 7% of the total iPad storage.
What’s the point? You can include far more content on an iPad than you probably imagine!
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