Thread: Kobo standalone? (never want to connect to Kobo, or activate)
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Old 01-21-2015, 06:56 PM   #45
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Alpha o View Post
Guess the question was, will it read (recognize) all the books you have on the card? Are they all available in list form at once? If you have 500, can you scroll through all 500?

I think I saw a 32G card mentioned somewhere in a review. Someone said the Kobo only had 1G of internal memory, but it didn't matter as it had an external SD card. I'm only using an 8G card, with a very minimal amount used.
I have a Touch which has an SD card with about 1200 books on it. It has no problems displaying them in the library lists. It can take a bit of time with the initial load of the books. The firmware processes them to load details into an internal database. I think it was about two hours the last time I did it.

I don't use the Touch much. I usually use a Glo. I don't bother with an SD card in it, but have about 1500 books on the internal memory. Again, processing them in one go takes a while, but I this is an accumulation of books over the last couple of years.

You can scroll through 500 books easily enough, but, I rarely do. The search works well, there are collections, the list can be filtered by reading status and it can be sorted. I'll scroll through the first five or size pages to look for something I know I loaded recently, but, use the search more than anything else.
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Problem with the reviews, most of the features that get a thumbs down (no carrier data, no sync, etc.) are things I simply don't care about. Such a hurry to get to the negatives, some positive or other helpful information is left out.

I do understand that if you don't register, you don't get a lot of services, but I don't need the services. I simply don't sync. I swap cards.
Swapping cards doesn't work that well. You can pull a card out, add books to it and then put it back in. The device will handle any changes - add new books to the library and remove deleted books. But, if you take a card out and put a different one in, then removes the books that were on the first card from the database and adds all the ones on the new card. If you swap them again, it does the same thing.
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