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Originally Posted by pilotbob
This defeats the purpose of having a 4GB card doesn't it.
Why have 160GB hard drive in an iPod... well, so you can have your whole music library with you. The iPod provides very simple menu system to navigate through the library... you can do it by Type (music, audiobook, podcast, videos), Artist, Genre, Albums, Songs... you can create play lists, it indexs the list so as you scroll through it, or you can shuffle... even indicating what songs are shuffled. You can also build on the fly play lists.
This is all done with a simple LCD screen with a simple list/scroll/select type menuing system. I don't see any reason why that simple nav can't be provided on an eBook. Granted the screen is slower. Also, the JetBook provides mobilephone like Text entry including T9 style to search/navigate (granted it has an LCD screen.)
Bottom line, if the CyBook is going to support a 4GB SD card, they should support the ability to list/navigate/find with decent performance the number of books that amount of storage can handle. Do they not test this type of usability?
BOb
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I believe the cybook supports 2gb cards, not 4.
I said they should create better navigation for the library; I was just making a suggestion to make the books easier to manage in the meantime. See, I don't have the problem of having to go through a hundred pages to find the book I want to read, thought I'd share that with James.
Assuming they will ever do anything to improve library navigation is an awful big assumption, I'd like the damn thing to just do the things it's already supposed to do
correctly - we really do not need lots of new features that also don't work like they're supposed to.