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Originally Posted by Fortissimo
I glanced through the tips and tricks section but most of the info seems to be for the earlier models.
What is the ideal number of books to load up on the reader at a go? I think I read somewhere that if you try to load to many at once, it may cause problems.
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I downloaded over 1200 free titles from
www.feedbooks.com's free public domain section, onto a SD card, and just powered down the reader inserted the card, and was back in business in about 2 minutes flat.
There was a one-time delay of about a minute or two while the Sony Indexed everything, but after that things pretty much went back to normal.
Files open instantly, page turns are just as fast, searches within books, and searches within the title list take only a few seconds.
Short answer - The PRS-650 is the most flexible powerful reader on the market, and it happily puts up with HUGE numbers of titles that would choke other readers.
One small word of caution . . .
Right now, due to the complexity of the EPUB spec, it's pretty hard to make an absolutely bullet proof EPUB indexer/reader.
So EVERY electronic reader can be frozen by a badly formatted or badly corrupted file.
The simple math is that the more files you jam on there from the net at one time, then the greater the chance that you will hit a messed up EPUB and possibly have to reset your reader.
Easy to reset the Sony though if this does happen, just press the reset button for a couple seconds, then after releasing the reset button, slide the power switch over to "on" for a few seconds (remember that a reset shuts things down, and in this state the power switch must be 'on' for a few seconds to power up the Sony).
With over 1250 titles now on my reader, I have only had one file that was messed up badly enough to freeze the reader, and that one was one where I took out the USB to quickly and messed up the transfer leaving a broken file.
Once I reset the PRS-650, deleted the bad file, and sent it to the Sony a second time a little more carefully, then everything was fine.
The advantage of sending smaller groups of files is that if you do get a bad one, it makes it quicker to zero in on the problem
So don't worry, with a little care, you can have THOUSANDS of books on your PRS-650!
