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davidfor · 06-17-2013, 03:32 AM

I just did another test. The SD card has 1184 books. About a quarter are PDF, the rest ePubs.

I first put it into the Touch. Waited a while and then plugged it into calibre to create the shelves. That created 31 pages of shelves. The big shelves have: 931, 66, 259, 211, 208 and 208 books (you can guess how that was sorted). Most of the rest are less than five books with a few between five and ten.

Opening the shelf list was about 40 seconds each time. I tried from the home screen and from the main library list. The speed was fairly consistent.

I took the card out and put it in the Glo. That took 11 minutes to process the books. Again connected to calibre and let it create the shelves. There were a few more shelves as there were already 200+ books on the Glo. But the sizes of the big shelves were the same. Actually, the numbers above came from the Glo. The big shelves should only have had books from the SD card, so they should be the same on both.

On the Glo, opening the shelf list list took 31 seconds. Where I started from or the sort order didn't matter. Again, the 31 seconds was very consistent.

A confession: This is actually with beta firmware on both devices. But, the figures for the Touch agree with what I saw with 2.6.1. And for anyone who wants to know, here's a hint about a change up there. And no, I'm not going to answer any questions.

06-17-2013, 03:32 AM	#724
davidfor Grand Sorcerer Posts: 24,905 Karma: 47303824 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Sydney, Australia Device: Kobo:Touch,Glo, AuraH2O, GloHD,AuraONE, ClaraHD, Libra H2O; tolinoepos	I just did another test. The SD card has 1184 books. About a quarter are PDF, the rest ePubs. I first put it into the Touch. Waited a while and then plugged it into calibre to create the shelves. That created 31 pages of shelves. The big shelves have: 931, 66, 259, 211, 208 and 208 books (you can guess how that was sorted). Most of the rest are less than five books with a few between five and ten. Opening the shelf list was about 40 seconds each time. I tried from the home screen and from the main library list. The speed was fairly consistent. I took the card out and put it in the Glo. That took 11 minutes to process the books. Again connected to calibre and let it create the shelves. There were a few more shelves as there were already 200+ books on the Glo. But the sizes of the big shelves were the same. Actually, the numbers above came from the Glo. The big shelves should only have had books from the SD card, so they should be the same on both. On the Glo, opening the shelf list list took 31 seconds. Where I started from or the sort order didn't matter. Again, the 31 seconds was very consistent. A confession: This is actually with beta firmware on both devices. But, the figures for the Touch agree with what I saw with 2.6.1. And for anyone who wants to know, here's a hint about a change up there. And no, I'm not going to answer any questions.