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Old 04-14-2017, 09:11 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
So what should they use? Flat files? Or read the books files each time the want to show the data? Either way leads to madness and slow systems. The current database is not good. It desperately needs a cleanup to get rid of tables and columns no longer needed. But it is backwardly compatible with a lot of firmware versions and would probably need a large rewrite. And that's something that no company will pay for without a really good reason.
I don't know...how do other e-readers do it? Did Sony use a database system that was prone to corruption? What about Nook? Kindle? Tolino?

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