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Old 08-20-2008, 01:41 PM   #7
murraypaul
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Originally Posted by Flub View Post
I've got a 505 preordered at Waterstones to replace my Iliad. I've been reading about how the menu system works for selecting a book to read. I know that it doesn't have folders like my Iliad but I read that if you have more than 30 books it starts splitting the browsing up with alphabetical menus.
As others have suggested, if you have a large number of books, the best way to go is to use collections to organise them.

The author/title lists are still one huge list of all the books, the letter shortcuts just jump you to a particular place in the list. The collections are the only way to actually filter the list to show you a small number of books.

I've got ~2500 books on a SD card, organised into collections by genre, author and series name, which gives ~250 collections.

So I first page through the collections to find the one I want, then select it and the reader shows just the books in that series by that author.

If you are going to have a large number of books, be prepared for a long wait whenever you unplug from USB. For the books I have, it took ~1h30 for the reader to scan them all and update the menus when first added, then ~55 minutes just removing and reinserting the card each time after that, and each of these takes a full 1/4 off the battery gauge.

You need to decide whether to keep your collection on the PC and only sync books as you need them, which takes a couple of minutes, or keep the lot on the Reader but only add new books very rarely. You'll also want to get a PSP charger, or a USB->PSP-power cable, so you can charge the reader without putting it into and out of USB mode, forcing a rescan.

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