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Old 09-09-2013, 08:30 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by speakingtohe View Post
That is one of the reasons I like it. I can just delete them from the original destination after I have imported them. I am not really a tablet person, although I have a couple, and am often asked for help by people who have a hard time figuring out what to delete and a lot of systems are different, but if the use aldiko at one thing is constant

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Yes, I could delete them off the SD card or wherever they came from; the whole problem here is the location of the book folder in the first place and the lack of choice about it.

Sure the location is constant if you need to troubleshoot; but not giving the user any option to decide where the best place to put a spacehog like their book library is a huge oversight, IMHO. At least asking the user if they'd rather keep their books on external SD, or defaulting the option to locate their library on the external SD if present would make it more palatable; but no, it wants to have it on the internal memory and you can't shift it! Poor design there. I may have 11GB of internal storage, but I want that for memory and apps, not my books-- that's the whole point of having an external card for less important files to live on.

Keeping books is an easier proposition on the external SD since restoring the device to factory settings will not also wipe out your entire book collection on device if it's on external-- it will also prevent slowdowns from lack of memory; on the other hand since Aldiko stores books in internal memory, formatting the USB storage will most likely nuke it, and space for apps and app operations will be limited by how many books I store on device. If you're dealing with a large collection you'd have to resend everything after nuking USB storage too, and that'd be a pain.

Conversely deleting the folder with your books in it on an external SD card is probably safer than if you kept it on internal storage: there's only so many types of things you can move to external SD, most of which are files that are pretty safe to lose like music, pictures, etc. So you're probably less likely to delete the wrong folder on external SD than otherwise.
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