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dhbailey · 02-09-2008, 11:07 AM

For those who have both the 500 and the 505, I am very curious about speed differences between the two.

On my 500, when I have the 4gb memory stick (with only .5GB of books, so nowhere near the 2GB limit) with about 300 books (reference books about music and musicians, all in either lrf or txt format), I find that simply setting a bookmark in a book I'm reading from the reader's internal memory takes a very long long time.

Is it any faster with the 505? I have read all the posts I could find which say that the 505 is faster in the memory card department, but none which give any really meaningful comparison between the 500 and the 505 (unless I missed a particular thread or message within a thread.)

Thanks for any insights anybody can share.

02-09-2008, 11:07 AM	#1
dhbailey Guru Posts: 604 Karma: 733 Join Date: Mar 2007 Device: HP iPAQ211 / PRS 500, 700 and 505	Speed Differences between 500 and 505 with 4GB memory stick and 300 books on it For those who have both the 500 and the 505, I am very curious about speed differences between the two. On my 500, when I have the 4gb memory stick (with only .5GB of books, so nowhere near the 2GB limit) with about 300 books (reference books about music and musicians, all in either lrf or txt format), I find that simply setting a bookmark in a book I'm reading from the reader's internal memory takes a very long long time. Is it any faster with the 505? I have read all the posts I could find which say that the 505 is faster in the memory card department, but none which give any really meaningful comparison between the 500 and the 505 (unless I missed a particular thread or message within a thread.) Thanks for any insights anybody can share.