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vxf · 11-08-2010, 11:18 PM

I don't know about books - but I did try plugging in my SD card with 1000+ PDFs with annotations into my new PRS950 - after 3 hours of indexing, I gave up and shut it down.

Also, I noticed a significant slowdown when transferring over periodicals - by mistake I copied over ALL of the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times issues for the past year (so about 600 or so) and that did slow my device - not the indexing, but jumping to menus, opening books and similar. I am not sure it has anything to do with the thumbnail view - I was using lists.

Overall, while I love the SONY readers, I find it disappointing that you can't carry your library with you. Being able to have a large number of books/documents with you is supposed to be one of the main advantages of an ebook reader. I would love to be able to carry my PDF library with me - for reference purposes. I think SONY should be held accountable for extremely misleading marketing, in this case. Carrying 10,000 books, as they claim in their advertising, is just not feasible, unless you find 10-minute page turns acceptable.

11-08-2010, 11:18 PM	#11
vxf Guru Posts: 944 Karma: 1490348 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Norman, OK Device: Sony PRS 350, 900, 950; Kindles (ALL of them!); Kobo Aura One	I don't know about books - but I did try plugging in my SD card with 1000+ PDFs with annotations into my new PRS950 - after 3 hours of indexing, I gave up and shut it down. Also, I noticed a significant slowdown when transferring over periodicals - by mistake I copied over ALL of the Wall Street Journal and Financial Times issues for the past year (so about 600 or so) and that did slow my device - not the indexing, but jumping to menus, opening books and similar. I am not sure it has anything to do with the thumbnail view - I was using lists. Overall, while I love the SONY readers, I find it disappointing that you can't carry your library with you. Being able to have a large number of books/documents with you is supposed to be one of the main advantages of an ebook reader. I would love to be able to carry my PDF library with me - for reference purposes. I think SONY should be held accountable for extremely misleading marketing, in this case. Carrying 10,000 books, as they claim in their advertising, is just not feasible, unless you find 10-minute page turns acceptable.