Thread: Aura H2O Is this normal?
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Old 02-15-2015, 06:29 PM   #39
davidfor
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Originally Posted by eschwartz View Post
Yeah, that would be inefficient. They probably do the same as the Kindle and store indexes, they just do it in the initial processing step...
The Kobo's store the metadata and the ToC in the database. There is no way to search the contents of the books except when reading them.

And as a data point for the processing, I bought a H2O a week ago. Because of a fault, I had to exchange it on the weekend and went through the set-up again. I sideloaded about 1200 books both times, but in different ways.

The first time, I did them in batches of about 200. The processing step took about 10 minutes per batch. The second time, I did them in one big batch. That took an hour. So, roughly the same total processing time for the two methods.

I was expecting the single batch to be noticeable worse than the smaller batches. Maybe it needs more books in the batch or more books already on the device to make it noticeable.

And for the record, the fault was one I haven't seen reported. The H2O worked perfectly except if it was put to sleep for more than about 20 seconds. If that happened, when it woke, it didn't respond to any touches. It appeared to be still running as plugging it into the PC would display the connect prompt and the power button worked properly. I tried a few things and couldn't get it working and Kobo agreed it was a fault, so it went back. The replacement is working perfectly.
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