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baronrus · 01-27-2011, 11:02 AM

I bought the cheapest 2gig card I could find.

over the last few days of playing with the sd card here are my observations.
1.) format the card as FAT32
2.) if you use a card reader attached to your computer and the save to disk function in Calibre it save the epub file the jpeg file and another file
3.) if you put the card in your kobo and use the send to device option the books show up only as the epub file (the cover art is still there) it takes much longer to transfer while the card is in the kobo.
4.) once the books are on the sd card everytime you power up the kobo it will spend several seconds powering up (as usual) and then it will process the new content (even if you havnt added to the sd card)
5.) the processing new content on power up seems faster if you transfer to the sd card using the send to device option than if you use the send to disk option.

I originally had a bunch of trouble getting the books on the card and tried all the formatting options and FAT32 is the only one that worked well. FAT 16 worked but some books wouldnt transfere onto the card no matter what I tried. NTSF works to get the books on but the card kobo didnt see the books.

01-27-2011, 11:02 AM	#18
baronrus Addict Posts: 217 Karma: 2975 Join Date: Jun 2010 Device: KO, KW, and KT	My sd card experience I bought the cheapest 2gig card I could find. over the last few days of playing with the sd card here are my observations. 1.) format the card as FAT32 2.) if you use a card reader attached to your computer and the save to disk function in Calibre it save the epub file the jpeg file and another file 3.) if you put the card in your kobo and use the send to device option the books show up only as the epub file (the cover art is still there) it takes much longer to transfer while the card is in the kobo. 4.) once the books are on the sd card everytime you power up the kobo it will spend several seconds powering up (as usual) and then it will process the new content (even if you havnt added to the sd card) 5.) the processing new content on power up seems faster if you transfer to the sd card using the send to device option than if you use the send to disk option. I originally had a bunch of trouble getting the books on the card and tried all the formatting options and FAT32 is the only one that worked well. FAT 16 worked but some books wouldnt transfere onto the card no matter what I tried. NTSF works to get the books on but the card kobo didnt see the books.