MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Speed Differences between 500 and 505 with 4GB memory stick and 300 books on it

dhbailey · 02-10-2008, 08:29 AM

Okay, then that doesn't explain why the placing of an internal memory book's bookmark should take so long when I have a lot of books on the card but haven't placed any bookmarks there yet.

Unless the Reader creates the XML file as a potential bookmark holder with an entry for every book, and when any bookmark is placed, it has to update the data for both bookmark files.

But nobody has answered my question regarding whether this is faster on the 505 than on the 500. I recall people mentioning that things seemed to work faster with a memory stick than with an SD card on the 505, but not specifically addressing the bookmark speed issue that I've noticed on my 500.

So I'm back to not using a memory stick at all and the speed is wonderful again.

02-10-2008, 08:29 AM	#5
dhbailey Guru Posts: 604 Karma: 733 Join Date: Mar 2007 Device: HP iPAQ211 / PRS 500, 700 and 505	Okay, then that doesn't explain why the placing of an internal memory book's bookmark should take so long when I have a lot of books on the card but haven't placed any bookmarks there yet. Unless the Reader creates the XML file as a potential bookmark holder with an entry for every book, and when any bookmark is placed, it has to update the data for both bookmark files. But nobody has answered my question regarding whether this is faster on the 505 than on the 500. I recall people mentioning that things seemed to work faster with a memory stick than with an SD card on the 505, but not specifically addressing the bookmark speed issue that I've noticed on my 500. So I'm back to not using a memory stick at all and the speed is wonderful again.