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Panta rhei · 10-13-2010, 08:36 AM

Hello!
I'm thinking about buying a Sony PRS-650 mainly because of its good (touch-)screen and the PDF capabilities.
Here's a question about how to navigate books (files):

There are many old free books available on the internet, so I already have a good number on my harddrive, organized in directories, like this:
\author\Homer\Iliad.txt
or
\scripture\hindu\Bhagavad_Gita.pdf

Most are PDF and TXT. I'd like to keep the directory structure as it is, cause I know where everything is, and would like to navigate down the directories. I read the Sony uses collections but I didn't really understand how they work. ePub has metadata which can somehow be used to organize the files for instance by author, right? But TXT doesn't have metadata (and I don't know about PDF), so how do the collections work here? Can I instead switch to navigating directories and filenames?
And is there a "recently read books" list on the device where you can go straight back to the page where you stopped reading?
Another question: after you load some new files to the device (I plan to use Calibre) or insert a card with new files, does the reader then start straight away or will it take a while? (maybe create some kind of internal index?) Can a big number of files be an issue/ is there a limit?

Thanks for your help,
Andre.

10-13-2010, 08:36 AM	#1
Panta rhei Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: none	File navigation on the device Hello! I'm thinking about buying a Sony PRS-650 mainly because of its good (touch-)screen and the PDF capabilities. Here's a question about how to navigate books (files): There are many old free books available on the internet, so I already have a good number on my harddrive, organized in directories, like this: \author\Homer\Iliad.txt or \scripture\hindu\Bhagavad_Gita.pdf Most are PDF and TXT. I'd like to keep the directory structure as it is, cause I know where everything is, and would like to navigate down the directories. I read the Sony uses collections but I didn't really understand how they work. ePub has metadata which can somehow be used to organize the files for instance by author, right? But TXT doesn't have metadata (and I don't know about PDF), so how do the collections work here? Can I instead switch to navigating directories and filenames? And is there a "recently read books" list on the device where you can go straight back to the page where you stopped reading? Another question: after you load some new files to the device (I plan to use Calibre) or insert a card with new files, does the reader then start straight away or will it take a while? (maybe create some kind of internal index?) Can a big number of files be an issue/ is there a limit? Thanks for your help, Andre.