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Originally Posted by silverraven
So, not complaining, just don't understand firmware differences, why does my Astak EZ Reader not need to index? Even if I load the SD card, then put it into the reader and turn it on, it only takes a couple of minutes to show up all the books. I know the Sony 600 I had would take forever to index too, but my Jetbook was just like my EZ Reader, no indexing.
IS this something that can be addressed by a firmware update, or is it built into the hardware? I wish I understood more about these things.
Thanks for the info!
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Does the Astak have search capabilities? If not it might not need to index. I think indexing is primarily to speed up searching. If each book is indexed as it is first loaded, then the search can be performed faster than if there is no indexing. In other words, trying to search through several hundred books without an index would be painfully slow.