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It seems to me that the discussion here confuses two issues: (a) The ability to exclusively access content via a (real) file browser system (i.e. without reading it into a database structure first) vs. (b) the possibility to offer the user a browser-like GUI experience (after having imported everything into a database).
(a) Would get rid of the time it takes the device to build/refresh the data base after adding or changing content. (b) Would just offer a the user an alternative GUI paradigm.
While I can understand that KOBO would never consider (a), since this would basically require a complete firmware re-write from scratch, I can't see any technical reason not to implement (b). At least from a programming point of view this should be trivial.
P.S.
There is no good reason that it takes that long for the device to build/update this rather small and not overly complex sqlite data base in the first place. This lack of speed is just the result of bad/sloppy programming.
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