Thread: Why does the reader take SO LONG to switch to the Menu?
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Old 11-22-2008, 05:41 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by astra View Post
To check that it is not a fault of the reader, remove the card, put a couple of book on the internal memory and try to access the menu. If it cures the problem, then the answer is many books on the card. If the problem persists than it is the reader's issue.
Yep - and if that turns out to be the problem, you might try swapping the SD card for a different one (or a memory stick) if you've got one handy to see if that speeds it up. The card's electronics and how they are formatted can affect performance.

FWIW, I noticed a similar problem. It seemed to me that it wasn't the size of the files on the external memory that slowed the reader so much as the number of them.

I recently sorted the files by size and put all the ones less than 2 MB on the reader (which was about 80% of them by count) and the remainder on the card. I picked the 2MB size by figuring what would leave me about 50 MB of free space on the Reader - it's not a good idea to fill it completely.

I did the file installation via the Sony software to take advantage of the pre-indexing that it does. Not sure if that may have had any other effects. I also put protected PDF's/ADE's on the Reader, regardless of size (based on nothing but superstition, I'll admit).

This setup seems to be almost as fast as when I was running with no memory card, but I've got a lot more material available on the Reader now.

This all purely subjective. Maybe I'm imagining it works better or maybe it's got something to due with some unique aspect of the files I'm using, the MS I'm using, the hacks on my Reader, etc. But if you try it and it works, please post.

Cheers,
Bob
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