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Old 04-21-2011, 06:59 PM   #4
Dean Gibson
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Originally Posted by phili View Post
How do you handle such a big number of books? The kindle is an E-Reader, not a library.
I have both the Kindle DX and the Nook Color. I have 30,000 PDF documents on the Nook Color, with no change in performance. I tried 2500 on the Kindle, and saw the same problems as reported above.

My guess is that when "Collections" were added, it was tested with just a few documents, and then released. Note to Amazon: people don't create collections in order to only put five books in each one!!!

In other words, whoever designed the "Collections" feature, didn't test it for scalability. Like using a bubble sort ...

Yes, people tend to use computers in ways not thought of by the developers ...

The seven last words of a developer: "Why would you want to do that?"

And yes, I was a software developer for over 40 years, and I saw a lot of this in my career ...
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