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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Non-responsiveness: you don't have to *store* all your books on the kindle, you know. That's what makes it so unresponsive. Keep them in the cloud.
Having said that, however, I have about 100 index pages of books, so that's ... 800? I forget how many are on each page. My Voyage isn't slow. Older kindles might not really care for that many books, though.
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Sorry, misunderstanding here. I don't *store* all my book on my Kindle. First, it would not hold 39,458 (currently) books. I do store them on my real desktop computer, on a very fast 4-disk RAID 5 array. And I keep up with them on Calibre, with extensive custom metadata to make lookups easy. When I want to update my Moon Reader, I export the books I want from Calibre to the local HD, then connect and copy those to my Kindle.
That said, have 37,000+ kindle books on the Amazon cloud makes everything VERY SLOW.
- Downloading a single new book.
- Refreshing books.
Just about any task is painfully slow for me now. When I had a couple of thousand books on Amazon, things were quite fast.
That is why I use Moon Reader now.
Note, Calibre has slowed down a bit also, but with a fast computer, it is well within the range of acceptable.
Oh, and I *never* "send" non-amazon books to amazon's cloud. With past versions of Kindle, it caused all sorts of mystery issues that caused me many unhappy hours on Kindle support, and bi-monthly resets of the tablet. And this is back when I *was* still trying to store a couple of thousand books on the machine. Not sure if that's still an issue, but not necessary now. Started using Moon+ for non-Amazon books, and now I use it for Kindle books also