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People scattered all over the mobileread Sony forums have mentioned the problem of Sony's "current cataloguing system."
It's the biggest frustration I have with using my PRS 505.
While I have about 1200 books, in three or four formats, on my hard drive, I only put about 50 at a time on my 2 gig card because I can't possible waste hours, if not days, sorting them into the "Collections." But they become lost without some kind of organization if I put on too many. I actually want to buy an 8 gig card now on sale at Office Max, but why bother when I can't even get the mileage out of the 2 gigger....
Does anyone know a way or hack to just be able to copy and paste a Windows folder into the 505? I have all my books sorted on my hard drive in folders named as you'd expect: American Literature, English, French, Asian, German, Etc...
Lack of a decent cataloguing or importing system really keeps me from putting all my books on the PRS 505 and, actually, from really get the most out of the device.
The Calibre softeware has the same limitation. I installed and then deleted it since I discovered I'd have to do all the same sorting and then end up with huge single file on Calibre with all the books dumped into it.
I've ALREADY sorted my books on my hard drive during the last decade. I just want a copy and paste! NOT sort them again! ...which would take days, if not weeks to re-do.
Also, I think it's a valid question to ask why does Sony makes it possible to have several formats and disk space up to 16 Gigs, when it's impossible to really use it! Many people here on mobileread seem to be dealing with the problem by ONLY putting a relatively few books on it at a time. Which means we constantly have to switch books in and out to be able to find them in a usualable way.
I bought my Sony Reader last March and have been hoping Sony would fix this particular problem but they just don't seem to care!
If anyone knows a hack around the collection problem, I'd love to hear about it.
Thanks.
Fred
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