Thread: Sony PRS-500 vs. Cybook Gen 3
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Old 11-02-2008, 02:31 PM   #2
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The CyBook's boot time does seem to be related to the number of books stored. With 1600 or so, mine takes about two-and-a-half minutes to boot.

I'm guessing that when it starts up it builds some kind of index of the books present. I don't know why it takes such a long time though.

So I tend to only turn mine off at night.

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Originally Posted by slayda View Post
Due to our SA USA MR Hoedown, I dusted off my old beat up PRS-500 and charged it up to have one more reader to show off. Since it was charged up, I looked at the books I had left on it, several of which I had not read yet and came from the Sony Store {fully DRMed}. I decided to read them before storing the 500 again.

I was amazed at the "speed" of opening a book on the 500 vs. the Cybook. Of course I know that some of this is due to the ungodly number of books I have on the Cybook (250+) but still I was amazed. Why does the Cybook take so long to boot up compared to the Sony 500? Any "knowledgeable comments" or just opinions?
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