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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Who knows, lots. I can fit 4000 on the PRS-505, so what does the Kindle 2 have to do with anything? I'm just pissed it's not 6000 the way it should be. I am finding ways to achieve it. Everything in life is a compromise if you compromise yourself. I choose not to.
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You're too late -- the compromise has already been made by the designers. It's up to you to decide how much of your life you want to dedicate to working around that compromise.
I suspect that the problem with large collections on the PRS is the same as the problem that many MP3 players have: ordinary end users are deemed too stupid to organize their own media in a sensible way using directories/folders, so the machine takes over the organization using metadata. The logic, presumably, is that media vendors will have supplied correct metadata (hah!) so the poor, benighted end user will be freed from any organizational burdens.
But the number of metadata items the PRS understands (basically title, author, and collection) is so limited that, even if you can get 4,000 or whatever books on it, you're never going to be able to find what you want with any efficiency.
So while I'd very much like to be able to get more books on my PRS, the lack of a decent organization system means that I probably wouldn't find it that useful in practice.
These limitations do seem a shame because they must surely be unnecessary. But I confess that they don't irritate me enough to put a lot of effort into getting around them :/