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Old 01-16-2012, 03:38 PM   #5
Kai Winters
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Hi Tabatha,
Glad you are enjoying your GP5. I've had mine for 4ish weeks and love it as well.
I have an 8gb external sd card installed and placed some music files on it using MS Media Player. I put them in a folder named "music". You can also just do a copy and paste from where your music is on your computer or you could also use the Kies program. I tried to use the Kies to transfer my itunes playlists but Kies did not see the playlists and I've read a lot of complaints regarding how craptastic Kies is.

I also moved a lot of pictures from my computer to the GP5. I just did the old copy and paste.

I have run into some problems recently when I sent books to the GP5 using Calibre. There are 2 folders that are hard wired onto the internal sd. One is eBooks, the other is external sd. Prior to installing my external sd books sent to the GP5 via Calibre were sent to the eBooks folder and I easily imported them onto the 5 using Mantano, Aldiko, Cool Reader, Moon Reader and Kindle. I was not sure what reader I preferred so I was trying them all. I wound up keeping Aldiko, Mantano and Kindle (I have several Kindle DRM books).

When I installed the external sd there was a folder on it named ebooks. Within that folder was another folder called import and in that folder is where the book folder would be sent when using Calibre to "send to device".
I should also say that Calibre sees the external sd as the Main Memory and thus far I am unable send a book anywhere else on the GP5.
When I imported the book from the external sd to Aldiko the book would be imported once but after some time (minutes to an hour or so) as I'd open Aldiko again there would be anywhere from 3 to 5 versions of the same book. If I deleted one version they would all become unopenable. Quite odd because for a couple of weeks it worked fine.
I tried everything I could to figure it out...see my thread in Calibre...I also opened a thread in "anythingbutipod". So far no response in either.
I did notice that the book I sent to the GP5 (extenal sd as the defaut) from Calibre would also wind up in the internal sd in the eBook folder...but nothing was in the GP5 folder named external sd...odd.

I wound up uninstalling Mantano and for the past 2 days...I've sent books to the 5 from Calibre as a test...the problem has not occurred.
I had no problem using any of the readers I installed. They all had pluses and minuses. I wanted a reader that would open epub drm'd books and Aldiko and Mantano are the only ones that link with Adobe Digital for drm epub books.

I really like Aldiko. It is very versatile. I especially like being able to change screen brightness from Aldiko settings.
The Kindle app is also nice and works well.
I'm using the free version of Aldiko, etc.

Good luck and enjoy.

Last edited by Kai Winters; 01-16-2012 at 03:43 PM.
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