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Originally Posted by theonna
DNSB- you have a very special Aura 
I already wrote how long it took to load books and then sync- about 1600- took Calibre 40 minutes to process, then 30 minutes to upload and then after disconnecting from computer another 50 min for Aura to process.
I was learning how to do shelves and so I had to remove all the books and put them back more than once, just removing them takes 30 minutes, and the times were all similar, when I tried to load 1.6g of books, about 3.5K all the time with processing took...2.5 hours.
Now if you want me to compare with Nook- the time it takes to put books on it is similar to Aura and depends on the speed of usb connection, but after that there is no wait time at all, compared with Aura. In fact compared with all of the big names on ereader market, Aura takes longest time to start reading after sideloading books. Yes, Nook does not leave you a lot of space on for your own books, but it supports sd cards. I can stick my library in and be reading in a minute or two, with Aurora, it is impossible, it needs to "process" the books for a good hour.
And in lieu of supporting keyboards for let's say chinese or russian or hindu- good luck using search for those. You counting 20 seconds against Nook search time, and forgetting that it is impossible to find any foreign book on Aurora at all, when on Nook you can do it with more taps, but with well organized library definitely not 36
I will put my card containing 800 books in Nook- I can read in a minute, I put same card in Aurora- I have to wait 40 minutes to even start and then, since I did not use Calibre- I would not be having shelves and would not be able to find a book in 100+pages, to leaf through them will take way more than 36 taps.
I will do testing tonight to see if processing speed improved any, but I think you doing Kobo disservice when you choose to ignore their shortcomings, and praising their extremely inadequate software.
Yes, I can and so can many others to work around the issues, but unless we say about the problems, it is us who'd be wasting time working around them for much longer, that is if we even stay.
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I don't ignore Kobo's shortcomings and I complain rather vociferously on occasion. What I find hard to comprehend is why your ereader requires so much more time to process books than mine does. In my experience, 1600 books takes about 10 minutes to process. Admittedly, these are all clean epubs (Flightcrew says no problems, Epubcheck has very minor complaints) which may be a factor. Perhaps you can name a few of those "many others to work around the issues"? Perhaps you can try running your epub book collection through Flightcrew and EpubCheck? I also find it hard to comprehend how you continue to ignore a solution that works for locating books and continue to kvetch about how dumping the database and going to a file browser would cure all your issues.
As for browsing the library, as I said, I use the search function. Works like a charm and takes far fewer taps than any other method I've tried. Perhaps you use a far simpler directory structure than I do -- flat by author perhaps. My structure breaks up into fantasy, science fiction, mystery, miscellaneous and 4 other categories, then I get into the sub-categories. Under Fantasy for example are folders for Sword and Sorcery, Urban, Sidhe, Paranormal, Steampunk, Dying Earth, and 4 more. Yes, I know Dying Earth is rather specialized but enough books to make it worthwhile to give them their own folder. Within those folders are the various authors, collaborations, anthologies and so forth plus series folders inside some of them. It's a structure that has been growing for quite a few years -- most of the early books were flat text files.
I just redid the Aura after doing the comparison with the Nook so I had the same number of books on each. The total time to factory reset, update the firmware, copy the books over and have them processed was less than the time you state just to copy the books. OTOH, I have to wonder why you are reloading the books into Calibre each time? Can't you simply load them into Calibre once and then use that library which would save you 40 minutes? And I have to wonder about the computer you are using. On my iMac, it takes far less time to copy the books to the Aura from Calibre, on my Lenovo laptop, it takes a couple of minutes less so 15 minutes instead of your 30 minutes. Then about 10 minutes for the Aura to process the books.
Total time is about 30 minutes. If I do a factory reset, add 15 minutes.
As for not being able to find a foreign book on the Aura (or is that Aurora?) What exactly do you mean by a foreign book? A book in a format that the Aura does not handle? I've never been enthused about storing those on any ereader. Once a book is processed into the database, it shows up on the search. Checking on my daughter's Glo, search for 'pix'. Hmmm... 5 results when I type the x, all of which are her cbz versions of Pixie 1 to 5. Total time about 1 second.
Now on your Nook, locate all books that have Eric Flint as author, co-author or editor. On the Aura, takes 1 tap to open the search bar, 3 taps to enter 'fli', tap on Eric Flint in the search results, hmmm... now I have to browse 13 pages of result (76 at 6 per page) so a max of 13 swipes and 1 tap. Total taps/swipes maximum is 18 to open one of those books. If I remember the book title I want is at the end of an alphabetic sort, I swipe backwards to reduce the number of swipes. Total time to the results page about 1 seconds -- I was watching the Blackhawks beat the Kings in OT at the same time but the results come up immediately and refined as I entered more characters. Total time to locate a random book, around 6 seconds.
Please let me know how long it takes to generate a similar book list on your Nook. I'm not even going to try on the Nook I have here. And yes, I did use Eric Flint as he is a prolific writer, collaborator and editor as his bibliography shows:
http://www.ericflint.net/index.php/bibliography/
As for reading books with fonts other than Latin or Japanese on a Nook, I seem to remember items such as having to root the Nook, copying font files over and renaming them, all kinds of fun.
And please let me know how well it works for Arabic and Hebrew? Tategaki? Perhaps a mixed book with right to left and left to right mixed on the same line?
Not using Calibre? That has no effect on the search function which you should know. Search does not care if you use Calibre, copy the books manually using an USB cable plugged into your ereader, copy them using ADE, pop the uSD card into your computer and copy the books to it directly or whatever other method turns your crank. The only requirement is that your ebooks have decent metadata otherwise search is GIGO. After all, if you've spent 40 minutes multiple times adding the books to Calibre, why not use it?
Shelves and folder browsing are just so 20th century.
Regards,
David