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I understand where you are coming from Murray. I used to read all of my ebooks on Palm devices, from the VX up to the Tungsten E and then I switched over to my Sony 505. I haven't looked back. I, like you, would rather have separate devices with larger capacity and better functionality, than combine them all into one device that doesn't do anything well or have room for much. I don't use the MP3 player on my 505 for the same reason I wouldn't try reading a book on my iPod. It isn't what the functionality for which the device is specialized. I currently have over 1500 books on one 2GB SD card and have about half of the space left on it. I also use an iPod Classic for the same reason. I never know what I will want to read or listen to and like having the option to switch around.
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A fellow horder
What impact does having such a large collection of books have? I understand the reader reindexes the card when files change? Does the calibre processing avoid this?
Is it still easy/quick to navigate through the title/author/collection lists with this many books?
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I had the same issue when I moved over. It just takes some getting used to. The Sony seemed to have the functionality that I wanted along with a bearable price tag. The big downside to making this switch is that the Sony doesn't use a folder system like TealDoc. For this, I recommend using Kovid's Calibre software. It will keep them organized for you using the collections feature. the only thing is if you have many series in an overall universe such as Star Wars or Star Trek, you may have to label the series as such. I don't mean to just lump them all into one big Star Wars folder or what ever but label each collection with an abbreviation to let you know where it sits. I use SW-Legacy of the Force for one Star Wars series or LKH-AB to separate the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series from the Meredith Gentry (LKH-MG) books by the same author. Not too big of a pain, just takes some getting used to.
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This sounds like a reasonable compromise. It looks like I could use the calibre command line tools together with txt2pdbdoc to do at least semi automatication of PDB -> TXT -> LRF. I currently organise by genre/author/series/book, it looks like the best compromise is to combine the genre and series together to form the collection.
In many ways it is deja-vu all over again, as this is the sort of thing you have to do when storing ebooks on the internal memory of a Palm device, which don't support any sort of folder structure.
To switch to another topic: fonts. What are my options here? By nature I am an Arial/Tahoma sort of person, rather than a Times Roman one, and I'm perfectly happy at small font sizes. I use Tahoma 11 with half-sized fonts so ~5.5 points, on the Palm.
I understand I can embed a specific font into an LRF file, but that this will slow down page turning, so I'd rather avoid that. There is nothing under Font at all in the manual index. Can I change the default font family and size that are used for documents that don't specify them, and what range is available?
Thanks for the replies, they are really useful.