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Originally Posted by DNSB
I'm tempted to ask how many of those books were able to go through epubcheck and FlightCrew without error? A couple of months back, when I was playing with storing more ebooks on my Aura, I added 11,234 ebooks to bring the total on the SD card up to 13,000. Copying the books over took time, the processing took quite a while but they all added without problems. Opening, searching, etc. seemed as fast as when I have my normal ~1750 books on the SD card. The ebooks came from Gutenberg and were all checked prior to being sideloaded -- command lines are still great for some purposes.
Well, if they didn't tempt us, we wouldn't brick our Kobos. 
On a more serious note, anyone who starts experimenting without having made a backup copy of the internal SD card to allow returning to a known good condition would let someone else pack her/his parachute.
Regards,
David |
Ha ha on the parachute thing. Myself I always back up my SD cards whether I need to or not with two disk images made with two different imaging programs, and a straight file copy every time before I change firmware. I am a bit anal that way. Haven't had to use them yet but it costs nothing but 20 minutes of my time.
I don't do the epubcheck or flightcrew thing. No doubt they are invaluable but I am not anal in that way.
The 549 books were the exact same books I had on my Mini with no problems. The same books loaded flawlessly on my Aura a couple of times when I just deleted them and started over, and a few more times they didn't. And the Kobo didn't actually freeze it just took quite a while to come back. I believe you may have had a similar experience once or twice? Goes to the second set of squares and appears to be stuck? And you always use epubcheck don't you?
The thing with the Kobo being slow to boot does not seem to me to be connected to the actual books as it will boot in seconds at times and take over an hour at others. Same books. And for me the reboot doesn't always come after being connected to the PC. Sometimes it comes during a library search and I seldom search, or once when I accidentally hit a shelf tile on the home screen.
Yesterday it froze for about 5 minutes while reading a book. Then it came back, but displayed the cover of the book I was reading before that but that book did not come up on the current book tile. The book I was reading when it froze was in the top left tile and saying unread in the library view. I found my exact place again and it worked fine. I just don't see this as a fault in the book.
That plus the fact that recent updates have improved things quite a bit, maybe a reboot a month instead of several weekly or on occasion even daily indicates that it is a firmware issue. My books are pretty much the same. I will delete the ones I have read about once a month and put on some random new ones. I am glad that things are getting marginally better firmware wise, but admit that I think it is taken far too long.
As for the opening/searching, that has never been a problem speed-wise for me, just a pain in the butt as I have become accustomed to using shelves/collections on my other readers and find it not only faster but more convenient. Some readers don't have shelves or collections and that is fine, but if they are provided they should not require you to open the shelf menu and go have a coffee while you wait.
Sorry for being so curmudgeonly, but seeing a couple of the same voices that dumped on people who dared to criticise Kobo, mostly in a kind of Oliver Twist way, dumping once again on people who are only guilty of trying to work around the problems. Perhaps some people never get a problem. Good for them. I suspect for the most part don't read 5 or 6 books a week but I could be wrong on that one.
Helen