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inky · 02-07-2008, 10:14 PM

I also ditched the SD card that came with the CyBook and instead am now using a different brand (although it's only 512MB.. but that should be plenty for now). For the first time since I got the CyBook (a few months back!), bookmarking now works properly. I also noticed, like dcalder, that browsing a book now seems MUCH faster.

Here's some things I did that might help others:

1. Obviously, try a different SD card if you have one. Most cameras come with one nowadays, so you could try that.

2. Check what file system the card is formatted as. I noticed that both cards were formatted as FAT16, and no dice -- The card that I have in the cybook (which is working) is formatted as FAT32. Maybe..

3. Try manually syncing.. i.e. don't use the mobipocket reader. Just go to Windows Explorer, and copy your eBook files to the drive in which the SD card is mounted (preferably after a format to make sure nothing is left over). Also, you might want to try not copying the *.MBP files. Perhaps the cybook cannot overwrite or append to them (and they have their attributes set to hidden, perhaps that has something to do it as well).

Too bad I seem to have screwed up the SD card that came with the cybook )(it became unreadable by every OS and application known to man, it appears). Oh well, plenty of time to fiddle around with it in the weekend ;-)

02-07-2008, 10:14 PM	#43
inky Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2008 Device: CyBook Gen3	I also ditched the SD card that came with the CyBook and instead am now using a different brand (although it's only 512MB.. but that should be plenty for now). For the first time since I got the CyBook (a few months back!), bookmarking now works properly. I also noticed, like dcalder, that browsing a book now seems MUCH faster. Here's some things I did that might help others: 1. Obviously, try a different SD card if you have one. Most cameras come with one nowadays, so you could try that. 2. Check what file system the card is formatted as. I noticed that both cards were formatted as FAT16, and no dice -- The card that I have in the cybook (which is working) is formatted as FAT32. Maybe.. 3. Try manually syncing.. i.e. don't use the mobipocket reader. Just go to Windows Explorer, and copy your eBook files to the drive in which the SD card is mounted (preferably after a format to make sure nothing is left over). Also, you might want to try not copying the *.MBP files. Perhaps the cybook cannot overwrite or append to them (and they have their attributes set to hidden, perhaps that has something to do it as well). Too bad I seem to have screwed up the SD card that came with the cybook )(it became unreadable by every OS and application known to man, it appears). Oh well, plenty of time to fiddle around with it in the weekend ;-)