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Originally Posted by johnysamajhdar
Sir i already have around 2k epubs with me right now. I need a sd card. That's why looking for it.
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Well, if you have that many books then there is something else you HAVE to consider. The software. On my old Pocketbook 302 I have about 4,000 books, and it was a pain to find anything (it was pretty slow 400 MHz CPU etc). On the Kindle 1/2 it would have been next to impossible.
One problem is that the CPUs in these things are so underpowered, it is hard to do a real search, or really to do anything much other than read a book. The early Kindles I have used, you basically could only store a few hundred books on it as you could never find the next book to read. Way too slow - you would give up before a search finished. The newer models are a lot faster and I am guessing the PW2 would be a lot better in that regard. I have used the Kobo Aura HD with 1,200 books on it, and it is sluggish. It is still usable, but I would suggest that it would not handle 4,000. I doubt the PW2 would be any faster.
So your problem is not the SD card - it is finding your next book.
The problem with the Kindles and Kobos is that they use a database to give you access to your books. Pretty cover images and all that. So it has to scan your device every time you add some books (and that in itself can be painfully slow). You need to setup 'collections'. Ie groups of books - group by author name, genre, etc. I generally setup collections by AuthorSort - and Calibre does a good job of that for you. If you have 400 authors, then you have 400 collections - spread over 20 pages in your device. It is a real pain going through those 20 pages, I can tell you.
The problem is that you can only have one level of collections, ie you cannot nest them. You cannot use genres or tags as then you would have so many collections as to be useless (unless you went through all 4,000 of your books and fixed up the tags). I have found that collections are almost to the point of being useless if you have a LOT of books.
The other problem is getting them on in the first place. Every time you do an update in Calibre - fixing AuthorSort names, spellings, etc, means you have to disconnect the ereader and get it to rescan. You will need a book handy to read while you stuff around with that for hours and hours. Painful.
And Kindles are like iPhones - you cannot simply copy a book onto it via USB. A real pain right there. I never bothered to check with the Kobo, but I think it is the same.
EDIT : it seems I am wrong on this point. You CAN copy books to a special folder on each ereader. Thanks - will check that out myself when I next have to use one.
Which is where something like the Pocketbooks come into their own. They are organised by folder. You can simply plug them into your PC and copy a book across - and it is on your ereader. I organise my new Pocketbook Lux 2 via folders ie Authorsort[1]/authorsort/series/series # - title.ext
ie so I have folders of all the letters A-Z. Inside each folder I have the Authors that start with that letter. In each author folder I have a folder for each series, and in each series folder I have the books numbered in order. So I nest my folders 3 deep. Calibre does all this for me of course. But I can simply drop a book anywhere on my Pocketbook and it will appear in the correct position on my menus. And it is fast - it does do a quick rescan as it also uses a small Database to allow for searching. But I basically ignore that and just use the folder system.
The Pocketbook also has another brilliant feature for those of us with large collections. It has Favourites!! As I am putting on books via Calibre, I note the books I might want to read next. When I unplug the ereader, I simply go through the books on the ereader and mark those books as Favorites. So when I finish my current book, I can quickly look in Favourites to see what is next. If I don't do that, I simply forget....after all, it could take me a couple of weeks to finish reading the book I am on.
I have used quite a few Kindles - my family uses them, as do friends. These are the same people who use iPhones. But I am an Android user, and likewise with my ereader. The Pocketbooks are the android systems in the ereader world, I guess. I would NEVER buy an iPhone, and for the same reasons I would never buy a Kindle. I do like the Kobo Aura HD and almost bought one. I still might. It has a slightly larger screen (6.9") although you can barely tell. It is slightly better than the PW2, but not by much.
Personally, I would like an 8" reader. The 10" ones are just too big to hold all day long. The 6" ones are good, but the latest models are (in my opinion) being made too small. They are cutting down on the bits surrounding the screen, and making them thinner. Which sounds good, but they are becoming too hard to hold. You HAVE to get a case for whatever you get, and that makes it a lot better, but they are still a bit small. Unfortunately, there are not too many 7" or 8" ereaders out there.