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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I agree that if it is advertised it should work and work well. It is not that an ereader has to process all the books you have on the device every time you open a collection and it makes me a bit uneasy wondering just why they do that. A book is a file and even a rudimentary file system should be able to process hundreds of books in a collection o if they have some obscure reason for doing it. The fact that some much older readers do it with 5000 seems evidence enough that it can be done.
Helen
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Not quite true
on all readers
My ADE(mrsdk) PEz uses a simple file-folder name bookshelf
I file series in a top level folder (also avoids FAT16 limits).
The display only shows 8 items (file and or folders : buttons 1-8 select 9+0 navigate). Every time when I arrive on the screen with 'Series_S' (contains 10 screens worth of <series name> folders), I have to wait while it scans (WAG) all 8 displayed items and does housekeeping (removes unused bookmark, reading restore point for any book touched.)
There does not appear to be any maintained DB other than a matching file based one, so it does this every time I land on that screen (I hate to think what it would be if I had not presorted by letter and I just dropped the 1K+ of series-name folders in one place
So there could be a good reason NOT to keep lots of books even if we do have room
(I do really need a better device, but I am touch challenged and still want Page flip and basic navigation buttons)