09-10-2010, 06:42 AM | #1 |
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Do the new readers have the library scan issue?
Can anyone who has a new 350/650 tell us whether the new models have the "library scan" issue that the older devices do? ie, when you start the device it scans all the books in memory, taking a very long time if you have more than a few hundred books?
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09-10-2010, 06:59 AM | #2 |
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ooh I would love to know that too. I plan on keeping quite a few of my books on whichever reader I choose and would hate to have to wait for indexing.
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09-10-2010, 10:11 AM | #3 |
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I wonder if anyone actually has one yet. The Sony Style store doesn't show they will ship before 9/16. But if someone does already have one, I would like to know that as well. I always find that so annoying with the PRS-600.
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09-10-2010, 11:11 AM | #4 |
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This is my biggest question too. A few folks have posted that their orders have moved to shipping status via sonystyle, but I think it is only for the 350s....my 650 certainly hasn't. I hope we have some of these new models in peoples' hands to test this issue soon!
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09-10-2010, 12:23 PM | #5 |
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Apparently, some people in Australia have the 650 :
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...7&postcount=86 |
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09-10-2010, 09:34 PM | #6 |
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We need them to start loading theirs up to test!
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09-10-2010, 10:39 PM | #7 |
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I do have the 350 right now. Otter asked me the same question in another thread but I didn't know what "library scan" issue stood for - until I saw this thread.
I have 83 books on the device right now - not that much and I can't tell it loading them, except to load the thumbnails, which takes a while. I turned off thumbnail view in the book list as the device already locked once when I switched from date added to book title view. The thumbnails are really slow to appear, but once they do, they stay there, same for the Home menu, where the latest books, Continue Reading and Pictures under Applications show them. |
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Anyway, Reader definitely does scan for books (Books menu isn't gone right? And doesn't matter in which folder you put your book, it appears in Books menu, right?), the question is, if the process was optimized. |
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09-11-2010, 07:19 AM | #9 |
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Unfortunately 80 books isn't sufficient to know whether this issue is still present or not. We need someone to load 1000 books, and see how long it then takes after disconnecting the USB cable.
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09-11-2010, 09:03 AM | #10 |
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I'd be happy if it didn't do it from being turned off and on again.
For me 400 books was more than sufficient to demonstrate the problem on my PRS-600. Etienne66 |
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All I can say, in the end, is that the loading part is much faster on the PRS350 than on the PRS300, but I would see 1000 books still take a while (and don't turn on thumbnails view, or you might regret it hehe).
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09-13-2010, 05:25 PM | #12 |
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thumbnails? I missed that being added at somepoint. but the library scan problem is my biggest headache on my current 505 if I accidentally eject the memory card(s). I could put all my ebooks on the memory card(s) but the generation of the new xml would never finish. I wish they would add a function to allow you to select a directory on the card(s) to index and display since I prefer to sort my ebooks by author directories anyway.
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Load a few thousand on the SD card and check the time. |
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09-15-2010, 02:13 PM | #14 |
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I would really like to know this too, since it's highly annoying on my 505.
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09-15-2010, 04:22 PM | #15 |
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Very good and interesting question.
400+ books should be enough to answer it. Really like to know. |
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