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mornington · 12-29-2010, 06:32 PM

I have 4096 books currently on the internal storage, with no slowdown.

I added them in batches of a couple of hundred at a time then just forced the 650 to thumbnail them (by going to book list, viewed by thumbnail and sorted by date added and clicking next page until reaching the end of the latest batch before loading the next batch).

I tried the same technique with an SD card but the device got very sluggish very quickly: By just using internal storage and forcing thumbnailing initially I'm now seeing no slowdown in the device's response rate.

Having too many collections can, in my limited experience with the 650 so far, also cause the device to become sluggish, and even to crash/reboot itself. I've only seen that happen when the number of collections has exceeded about 800 to 900, though.

12-29-2010, 06:32 PM	#16
mornington Connoisseur Posts: 63 Karma: 732 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: Sony PRS-650	I have 4096 books currently on the internal storage, with no slowdown. I added them in batches of a couple of hundred at a time then just forced the 650 to thumbnail them (by going to book list, viewed by thumbnail and sorted by date added and clicking next page until reaching the end of the latest batch before loading the next batch). I tried the same technique with an SD card but the device got very sluggish very quickly: By just using internal storage and forcing thumbnailing initially I'm now seeing no slowdown in the device's response rate. Having too many collections can, in my limited experience with the 650 so far, also cause the device to become sluggish, and even to crash/reboot itself. I've only seen that happen when the number of collections has exceeded about 800 to 900, though.