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Originally Posted by DNSB
Considering the amount of information stored in the database, we would need to use a file system capable of storing a large amount of metadata in addition to the file name/size/data.
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You are correct if you NEED all that metadata to be processed by the reader itself, unfortunately this approach yields extremely long processing times when actually trying to use reader at it's full capacity, some of us have more than a 1000 books in our collections. Also this database is highly susceptible to being corrupted and deleting items takes almost as long as adding them. Nook and Kindle do not have any of this issues.
As far as file manager support- it is the most helpful feature, especially to those of us with large collections, once organized by folders large collection is easily searched, transferred between devices and using it definitely beats a need to create hundreds of collections, especially since Kobo interface only lets you create collections manually and add books also manually one at a time, which is a total no go with a large collection of books. In short- Kobo becomes a nightmare to use for anyone with large collection of books, no matter how wonderful the screen is, if I cant find a book or have to wait for an hour after disconnecting my reader from computer...Which happens if you get close to 2gig of books on your reader, each time you disconnect from computer.
And I am not even touching a problem when you cant find any book, that is written in different language, than the default keyboard allows, even though you can read it just fine. File manager is the easiest solution for this.
Sorry for the long post.