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Originally Posted by kacir
You are not looking hard enough.
Have a look at PocketBook readers, for example. They support hierarchical folders and do not choke on *many* thousands of book files. And they support huge numbers of file formats, so you do not have to convert ...
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PocketBook is high on my list of potential next ereaders. (How many of those file formats do they actually *support,* as opposed to "open?" My PEZ was a disappointment in that area; while it opens doc, html and txt files, it botches the formatting and adds hyphens and unhyphenated word breaks.)
I stand by my statement. A folder structure that holds thousands of files and is not tagged or searchable is unwieldy.
4gb of ebooks at roughly .333 mb each is 12,000 ebooks. If the person collects short stories or blog feeds as ebooks, it's even more. The issue isn't with creating a structure that allows you to find a particular book--it's creating a structure that allows you to *browse* the collection. Ebook reader software has been almost entirely set up to mimic the "bedside shelf" rather than one's entire library.
Say someone downloaded "all the epubs from Project Gutenberg" onto a card. That's 36,000 ebooks: should be around 12gb. Certainly within range of a single 32 gb card. How can they be arranged so that the reader can browse through the collection and find something to read that fits their mood of the moment? Are tags supported? Search functions? Bookshelf lists? (Do books show up as title-and-author, or as filename?)
(Hm, complete Gutenberg download collection, sorted & tagged... there's a project for some nice digital librarian group.)