I've been lurking for a while, but I'd like to get some thoughts on the subject
of what is the largest text you have ever processed through IR? How large was
the text? What kind of subject matter? Any special considerations you worked
out to make it more effective, or overcome issues unique to extremely large
texts?

I'm currently in the first year of an MBA program, and I've found IR very useful
for dealing with the HTML articles available to me, but processing larger
chapters of textbooks has thus far been a struggle. I'd like to be able to
process them via IR not for the sake of tests but to retain the knowledge after
the coursework is done.

Tim