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mikew · 09-29-2008, 02:37 PM

Hey all,

Well I finally broke down and bought myself a PRS-505 this weekend. I've spent the last 2 years looking at ereaders, and lurking around places like this. On Saturday I happened to go into a Sony store and saw that they finally got off their butts and released the device into Canada. I played with it for roughly 1 minute in the store (the GF was in the waiting and running car) before I said to the guy "ok, lets do this!".

All in all, I'm really happy with the device. Especially since I removed the Sony software and installed Calibre!. The only problem I is when I insert a sdcard that I loaded up with a bunch of books from project Guttenberg. The card has maybe 1600 titles on it right now (excessive I know), and when I insert it the reader takes over 10 minutes to come back to life. I've tried several times now thinking that perhaps it just had to build a database or something. Is this normal? Is this something I can fix? Should I not be such a book whore and only store a few books at a time? If that's the case, what's the point of expanded memory?

Thanks all!

09-29-2008, 02:37 PM	#1
mikew Junior Member Posts: 8 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2008 Device: prs-505	Long waits after inserting a SD Card Hey all, Well I finally broke down and bought myself a PRS-505 this weekend. I've spent the last 2 years looking at ereaders, and lurking around places like this. On Saturday I happened to go into a Sony store and saw that they finally got off their butts and released the device into Canada. I played with it for roughly 1 minute in the store (the GF was in the waiting and running car) before I said to the guy "ok, lets do this!". All in all, I'm really happy with the device. Especially since I removed the Sony software and installed Calibre!. The only problem I is when I insert a sdcard that I loaded up with a bunch of books from project Guttenberg. The card has maybe 1600 titles on it right now (excessive I know), and when I insert it the reader takes over 10 minutes to come back to life. I've tried several times now thinking that perhaps it just had to build a database or something. Is this normal? Is this something I can fix? Should I not be such a book whore and only store a few books at a time? If that's the case, what's the point of expanded memory? Thanks all!