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Originally Posted by timewyrm
25 shelves possibly.
What's ridiculous is that Kobo themselves on the Glo homepage mention 30,000 books on a 32GB card. I'm only trying to hold around 1600 books (if that), which 98% epubs (and 1% txt files, and the last 1% pdf (which I'm in the process of converting to epubs anyway)), and the Glo struggles. I'm not trying to push the Glo anywhere near the 30,00 books that they have stated. Also, there's no small print (or otherwise) that I can see, that mentions anything about the device struggling with x amount of books.
I've tried:
- 25 shelves with around 50 books on each shelf - doesn't make a difference
5 shelves with around 300 books on each shelf - still no difference
I had at one point around 2000 books on the Glo, and "books" still loaded in 6 seconds, but "shelves" always struggles.
There are only two things left for me to try:
1. To convert all my pdfs to epubs, and see if that makes any difference. If not then:
2. Put 100 books on at a time, and monitor when the Glo "shelves" starts to struggle.
I don't think that it's unreasonable of me to expect my Glo to run smoothly with only 1600 books on it, especially when Kobo keep mentioning 30,000... |
There is no such thing as too many books. The device can and does handle them well. The routines for shelves are what is at fault. And the initial set up on your device digesting that many books at once can take quite some time. I have never had an issue with speed or access of any books at any time. I have however noticed some lag in shelf access but nothing near what you suggested you had initially and I have over 36 pages of shelves (I page has one shelf) which works out to 246 shelves, some of the shelves having over 435 doctor who books(yeah I know doctor who...... What can I say). and have no more then maybe 1min 15secs of wait time for the shelves to be accessed. So poppy cock to the bs theory of too many books. Bottom line the problem is most logically caused by bad programming on the Kobo developers part. I have no issue with accessing any of the books via the regular way, search, browse from the library etc. The slow wait for my shelves is 1 min 15 secs + or minus a few secs,is the only delay I have. I remember at one point the kobo took a huge length of time for adding the books on initial start up as in when you just bought it and placed your collection on your external card. That makes sense as it is the first time the device has encountered the books and must set them up in the data base for you to access. I don't delete any of the books I buy or add, I like being able to have a good selection of reading. Adding additional books for the most part doesn't take too much time, as your only adding a few at a time or sometimes in my case a couple of dozen.. The only issue at that point is that Kobo developers override your current reading list and put the new books at the top of the list effectively kicking your current read to the bottom of the new books. Not an issue if you only add one or two... but a pain in the butt at times when you add a few dozen. I put my books only on my sd card as if there is an issue and a factory rest has to be performed the main sd card of the device is erased. meaning you have to have access to a computer to transfer your books over not practical if you travel or on a plane where access to your home computer is stifled. The fact that you can pretty much wiz through the library listings and search for a particular book faster then accessing the Shelves does support the theory of bad programming on the Kobo developers part. Again I have 246 shelves to choose from, 1 min 15 secs to bring the shelf list up.