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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Connect is not slow. The PRS500 is using USB 1.1. Plus, as you transfer your data, Connect is setting things up so you go do stuff like open the book, change font sizes, etc. whout having to wait for your slower Reader to process this for you.
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Connect is slow and buggy:
- I load books onto a fast SD card using a usb 2.0 reader, and it takes much more time to transfer books from the library using Connect than the I/O time should take. If it's processing the data as it transfers, then why does it take so long to import books? I can see book processing as an excuse for a slow import or transfer, but not both. And really, books are pretty small, just a few hundred K up to maybe a little over a megabyte. I bet I can encode a 1MB video file with xvid faster than Connect imports a book, and the former takes a lot more processing.
-It takes a huge amount of memory... when I first insert the SD card into the reader on the PC, Connect's VM size goes up to (now) 1.4 GB, for about 800 books. There's something wrong with that.
- The database gets corrupted easy. It crashed once when importing, and now it acts funny when you delete books or try to sort. It actually doesn't sort properly now when you click on the Title or Author headers. I'm probably going to have to delete the library and reimport everything (again, had to do this already because of a corrupted collection).
Compare Connect to Itunes - that handles much bigger files, and much larger amounts of files, much faster, with no funky behavior. I only have a few hundred books so far and Connect is unwieldy, whereas Itunes runs fine with many thousands of songs.
Connect runs fine if you have a few books, but if you try to take advantage of a big SD card and the free ebook sources like Gutenberg you end up suffering.