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Originally Posted by AndrewH
I don't know if it's been improved with the newer Sony models, but on my PRS-600, the more books you load onto it, the slower it is when you turn it on. At one time I had my entire ebook library loaded on my reader and it would take 20-30 minutes to boot up. For me an omnibus would be greatly preferable to 500 individual files tagged as a collection.
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True, but how often does the average person turn their ebook reader
off?
The only time mine ever scans its card (2500 books or so) is when I load new ones, and while it does take a fair bit of time, I deal with that simply by picking times so it's doing that while I'm in the shower, or eating dinner, or that sort of thing. It uses so little battery power that there's no real reason to turn it off 99.9% of the time. I just charge it every week or so, and use the sleep-mode switch most of the time.
By the way, offsite backups are an excellent idea. DVDs make good backups for ebooks (and e-stuff); just burn one every so often, and toss it into a drawer at work or something.