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Originally Posted by DuskyRose
I agree, and I think it's ridiculous to say that a device can use large micro-SD cards if they can't handle the amount of files that the card can carry.
I feel like it's false advertising. If a device can't handle anything over what a 2gig card can carry, they shouldn't advertise that it can take a larger card. Or at least make it clear that anything over the size the device can handle is wasted space. And you certainly should be able to use the internal space without any problems with access or indexing.
Frankly, the "Carrying that many books is crazy" is beyond old. Any time someone wants to figure out what the limitations of their current device is, there are those who post that they shouldn't be doing so. Then we get into discussions about why some of us want to do so, just to get ignored, when the question wasn't 'should I' carry them, but 'can I on this device.
Questioning why someone wants to something is not helpful, and is just beating a dead horse. We want to, so that's all that matters. If you can't help with the specific problem on that specific device, then why even get in on the thread?
Because 'We Want To' should be enough reason to ask for technical help.
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Except that there is no technical help to solve this issue. It happens with all readers. We're offering suggestions on how to get around the issue, which invariably will come down to not expecting to have 25,000 books on an ereader. The software, hardware and memory with e-ink readers obviously isn't as robust as your desktop PCs. If you still want to use an e-ink reader to have the benefits of reading in sunlight, long battery life, and changing fonts, then you need to work around the issue.
Some can have thousands of books without issues, possibly it's the formatting of the books, number of images within a book, size of the books, whether there's any errors in the books (errors can choke any reader if they're bad enough even with 100 books on the reader), or any combination of these. But I think 25,000 books is unrealistic on any ereader.
False advertising? Maybe. Because your car is advertised to go 150mph, do you drive at 150mph?
Someone asked, a few of us answered as best we could thinking they're not aware of ereader issues. We're not beating a dead horse. Complain to the manufacturers, we can't change the limitations of ereaders, we can only offer suggestions on how we live with the limitations.