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Yoc:
Yeah, my ISP does set limits which I thought was the norm out there today.
As for me, scanning at higher resolutions was brutally slow.  Even at 150dpi it was a minute or two per page and at 300dpi I was nearly falling asleep waiting!  (half joke).  Now it might have been my scanner (HP Scanjet4370) or the very old PC I was using (P4 1.7ghz) but I just couldn't take the slow speeds and stuck with 150dpi while I was still scanning.
A better scanner and machine might easily handle the higher resolution.
A 68pg book at 300dpi would be a pretty large file.  We've been hosting mostly books in the 20-80mb range with some exceptions and haven't had any problems.  I think if the book is rare enough and the artwork exceptional it's certainly worth a higher resolution scan and would encourage scanners to do so if they are willing.

-Yoc

Roygbiv666:

--- Quote from: Yoc on October 20, 2010, 04:10:21 PM ---Yeah, my ISP does set limits which I thought was the norm out there today.
As for me, scanning at higher resolutions was brutally slow.  Even at 150dpi it was a minute or two per page and at 300dpi I was nearly falling asleep waiting!  (half joke).  Now it might have been my scanner (HP Scanjet4370) or the very old PC I was using (P4 1.7ghz) but I just couldn't take the slow speeds and stuck with 150dpi while I was still scanning.
A better scanner and machine might easily handle the higher resolution.
A 68pg book at 300dpi would be a pretty large file.  We've been hosting mostly books in the 20-80mb range with some exceptions and haven't had any problems.  I think if the book is rare enough and the artwork exceptional it's certainly worth a higher resolution scan and would encourage scanners to do so if they are willing.

-Yoc

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You're in Ontario, aren't you? Yeah, I'm using Rogers, and their rate plans do have usage limits. I just upgraded from "Ultra-Lite", which is 2 Gb upload/download at $27.99/month, to "Lite" which is 15 Gb for $35.99/mo. I don't really do much except the occasional comic, music via iTunes, YouTube, or tvshack.cc, but I was going over the 2 Gb a little most months, so I upgraded.

If anyone is interested by way of comparison with wherever you live, these are the rate we pay in the Toronto area:
http://www.rogers.com/web/link/hispeedBrowseFlowDefaultPlans

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