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Originally Posted by timewyrm
Hi,
Some of my friends got together and decided to buy me a Kobo Glo as a thank you present. Along with this, they gave me a 32gb sd card full with books and comics. I turned on the Glo, and it updated itself, and then I inserted the sd card. The first thing I noticed is that the Glo seems to operate very slowly (most likely due to the number of books and comics etc). When I click on a book or comic, it seems to take almost 30+ seconds to load up any book I want to read. Is there a way to fix this ?
Secondly, on the Glo, all the files are all listed in one long list (which I've read is normal). Am I correct in assuming that the only way to set up shelves via a pc, is to copy all the media from the sd card, to my Calibre library and then edit the meta data, delete all the stuff from the sd card, and then upload all the media back onto the sd card (I've been reading the calibre shelf management thread) ? Is there any way to set up shelves via pc, without having to copy or delete files from the sd card (the are like 1600 books etc!)
I did asking my friends but none of them have a Kobo device.
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I have over 3000 books on my Kobo glo. I have no issues in opening them. How ever I do not have comics or pdf files on my glo of any kind so can not comment on the overall speed of handleing those types of book formats. I do notice that there is a delay in loading the shelf data when you go to the shelves but its a small delay and it does not take any time to open the books from there or from the library list. With a 32gb card you have the potential to put over 30,000 epubs on your device. I don't think you need to worry about removing books etc. As to editing the meta data that can be a big job but calibre will handle it nicely. I rather suspect your issue is the comic books, and bottom line its a book reader so its not built for speed. Speed is what you get with tablets and cell phones when you surf the web its not needed to turn pages and wait for you to read the text of the page before turning the page again. Its also built to use epub formats not so much for comics and pdfs.
Good luck