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Originally Posted by vugtitan
Some people, myself included, are very annoyed when we come across such artificial limitation, and we want to hack the system as a matter of principle.
it seems you are right.i have a terabyte hard drive with millions of various files including books,mp3,18 operating systems files files and the computer does not slow down...on the kindle 3 put 1 or 2 thousand files and it starts to slow down.
why?
it should not do that at all.it should load the book file into memory that is being read and not do anything to the other files in the document folder.
amazon seems to have come up a really crappy operating system for the kindle.
their os for some reason even after indexing the books it seemed to be obsessed with "processing" them and slowing down or freezing.it almost seems like that horrible vista with spinning circle thing.
there must be some way of defeating this.
the chinese have come up with doukan operating system for the kindle and although i have not tried it yet it seems to have folder support and epub support.
you can install both os side by side.you can see the other thread about it with links.
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The problem is that they don't hire old programmers, but kids out of hack school -- interpretive scripts are fine, but you need to set up a permanent memory area to use for redisplay (which they don't really do). sorting such a list is near instantaneous (or is instantaneous, if you design your link list correctly); instead, the kindle re-reads the list AND the data in the MBP files for each redisplay, it seems.
They also have an artificial limit of around 3200 for their initial build of files - you run into it first in the archive list (usually), when registering a new device. It only loads the oldest files, stops at around 3200, then adds newly purchased items after that, leaving a donut hole in your archives that never fills (the only work around is using the website to find your books or store yourself offline).
They have also chose a solution on the MYK page that only makes sense if you have a small library, rather than a solution that might be slightly slower for those with more than 20 books and under 100, but faster for all those with larger archives.
I may have to kill indexing on mine -- but I don't think it will fix the issue it has with rebooting (only if wifi on and left to sleep; it's like an endless update cycle, but it doesn't need to update). This is the second one I've had start this after the last update was released (rather than fix the software, Amazon replaced my Kindle last time, but now this Kindle has reached the number of items required to have it start the same thing).