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Originally Posted by Nadrek
On a reader with 307 collections and some over 3000 books, all on an 8GB Sandisk (cheap blue, not the Ultras or the Extremes) SDHC card, imported from Calibre, I've seen occasional freezing. The most obvious time is when I've been using the reader for some hours, and it's been in and out of sleep mode, then I press Collections; Collections is highlighted... and that's the end of screen refreshes.
I've let it sit for over half an hour, no response. Power button does nothing, either brief presses or for >5 seconds. Pressing the Reset button does help; at this due to impatience time I'm unsure if it's press Reset briefly and wait a couple minutes, or if it's press Reset for >5 seconds and wait somewhat less. Pressing Reset briefly, pressing Power briefly, waiting ~45 seconds, and pressing Reset for >5 seconds and Power for >5 seconds does appear to work after another minute or two.
Has anyone isolated this further?
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Well you are pushing it to the outer limits of what it can do. These readers don't have a fast Pentium style processor, so when you load a gillion books into hundreds of collections it is going to slow down and get overloaded at some point.
I understand the temptation and desire to place your entire library on a single device, but I really don't think the technology has quite got to that point yet when it comes to ebook readers. The indexing alone could cause a freeze. I personally think we are better off limiting the number of books to a few hundred at most. Think about it, even if you could consistently read an average of one book every two days it would take you over 16 years to read 3000 books!
These readers were designed for casual reading and not use as a huge library of reference material. They simply do not have the processor speed nor the firmware to adequately handle that task.