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Originally Posted by kdf9511
It was the whole format thing that lead me to buy an Astak Pocket Pro as a dedicated ereader. I have a big library of books that I have been collecting since 1998 that I used to read on a pocket pc running uReader or MS Reader. So most all of my books are either .lit, .txt or .rtf. Since I got the Astak I started picking up epubs witch are nice.
My bigest issue will almost all the new reader and especally the Sonys, Kindles, and Nooks is the way they orignize the librarys. I like being able to just drag and drop the books I want to read on an SD card and go. I have already spent a lot of time sorting my extreamly large library into folders based on author, subject, and series. It also makes it a lot easier for me to find what I'm looking for. Calabre is nice but I find it slow and a pain in the buttocks and don't like the fact that it takes up more and more disk space as it copies files into new folders.
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OT reply; It sounds like your Astar lets you use a normal file directory/folder
structure, like my Jetbook Lite. What works great for me is to create a
directory on my PC with the same folders and sub-folders that I want on
my SD card, then I use the free MS "SyncToy" to insure that the SD card
matches any additions or changes that I apply to the directory on my PC.
With the "Master copy" of the SD card on the PC I can use all kinds of file
handling tools to maintain my library. Then it is a quick process to pop the
SD card out of my ereader and slide it into my PC's media card reader, start
SyncToy and then preview and run the sync process, making the SD card
match the PC directory.
Luck;
Ken