03-07-2012, 02:08 AM | #1 |
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What is the microsd card limit (gb) for the Kobo Touch?
32gb? 16gb? It's only been a week or so since I've owned this device. I really like it and I'm planning expand my library.
Also, has anyone noticed any lag in reading time (e.g. flipping pages) with a full memory card? In other words, is there more delay with more books loaded onto the memory card? Much appreciated. |
03-07-2012, 02:44 AM | #2 |
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Personally I have a 8GB card and have not noticed any slowdown in page turns. The search function however slows down considerably since it has to work with so many titles. The first letter of the search always takes the most time then the rest is relatively quick. I'm pretty sure 16GB cards are supported. Don't know about 32GB or higher. How many books do you plan on having on your device?
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03-07-2012, 04:20 AM | #3 |
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There have been many reports of people having problems with cards greater than 2GB, so be warned it doesn't work out for everyone.
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03-07-2012, 11:49 AM | #4 |
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Pretty sure the site says 32GB, I'm using a 8GB Micro-SDHC card and it works perfectly. I don't have a ton of books on it though.
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03-07-2012, 12:01 PM | #5 |
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It DOES say 32Gb, but many people have reported problems with SD cards that are over 2GB.
You may well have no problems, but it;s not guaranteed. |
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From what I can see, most problems occur with the not so common memory cards.
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03-07-2012, 02:54 PM | #7 |
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So basically you're recommending that SD cards are more stable than SDHC cards. I'd have to agree.. It is an older standard and they do have on rare occasion a 4GB SD version and nothing higher. Addressing limit you see.
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03-11-2012, 12:54 AM | #8 |
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I would highly recommend not going higher than 8gb, look for SDHC (Class-6) or SDXC (Class-10) cards.
I have tested the device with cards of 8gb and lower. And have had issues with Lexar 16gb SDHC Class-4 and ADATA 16gb SDXC Class-10. The cards are fine and work in other devices perfectly. |
03-13-2012, 05:33 PM | #9 | |
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My best suggestion would be to stick to reliable brand named cards, and not the budget dime a dozen cards. regards Jack |
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03-14-2012, 12:11 AM | #10 | |
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First, the Kobo Touch is spec'ed as being able to handle micro-SD cards up to 32GB in size, as Jack has said. Since this was a specified feature, I looked into large capacity cards. I finally bought a 16GB card, since the 32GB cards were pretty expensive, and there was a mail-in rebate offer on the 16GB card. Mine is a "reliable brand name card" -- it was made by Patriot, who are one of the major memory manufacturers. For the record, mine is a 16GB SDHC Class 10 card; in other words, a high-performance piece of memory. Initially, my card worked perfectly, but after a few firmware upgrades, my Touch started to act in very weird ways. In effect, with the card installed, I couldn't read any books. It made no difference as to whether the book was on the card, or in main memory. For the hell of it, I have tried moving the contents of my card to other cards, and testing them in the Touch. So far, I have tried a 2GB SD card, and a 4GB SDHC card. Both of these seem to work perfectly -- I have experienced none of the weird behaviour that I have seen with the 16GB card. Based on my experiences, I would have to agree that you should look to use smaller capacity cards, at least until they get the bugs sorted out (if ever). Frankly, this card problem really pisses me off, since it was obviously not properly tested during development -- if you say that you support some piece of hardware, then you have to be able to prove it. My piece of eight... |
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03-14-2012, 09:02 AM | #11 |
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The largest standards-compliant SD card is 2gb. There have been a few tricked out cards made that are 4gb, but the do not meet the SD Card specs and fail in many card readers and should be avoided. The standards-compliant SD/HC cards should be used instead.
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07-20-2012, 03:20 AM | #14 |
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The 30,000 eBooks limit is exactly the sort of commercial lie I hate; this figure has been calculated this way: a 32 Mb SD-card can contain 32 MB, that is nearly 30,000 x 1 Mb e-book files!
But the Kobo is absolutely unable to parse as many files, and it has no room for as many books: for any book cover, it creates monochrome copies of the cover that often need about 200 KB for each book in the /.kobo/pictures/ directory. For 30,000 books the Kobo would need 6,000,000,000 bytes of main memory (6 GB). Mine has only 1,434,600 bytes. This is false advertising by unskilled merchants. As for me, I tried with up to 800 books on a 4 GB SDHC. As I don't care about brands I could not tell which, but this is an ordinary one. The Kobo is slow, but, well, it works. I already reduced to 700, and I plan to erase the complete Proust, Balzac and so on, because I loaded them hoping that the Kobo would allow fast searches as other handheld devices, but it is the slowest of all slow devices I ever owned. Really prehistoric to my mind... I often save compressed archives of the contents of both Kobo and SD card. Each one is nearly 250 Mb. When I have a problem, I restore from the two files of the same date, which also defragments the flash memories. One thing I noticed too: if you format the SD card through the Kobo cord (when it is plugged to the Kobo), the card will no longer be recognized by the Kobo, till it is formatted separately. (I use SDFormatter). The card must be formatted through a SD adapter directly connected to the computer. I noticed that a user in another thread could only format the card with his Blackberry. Maybe he tried to format the card while it is plugged to the Kobo. Though I know it it still happens to me... Last edited by Francois_C; 07-20-2012 at 06:00 PM. Reason: Completed |
07-20-2012, 10:18 AM | #15 |
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16G Sandisk card, no problems what-so-ever, before, during or after any update. Was good to go right from the first time I plugged it in.
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