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Originally Posted by kevin_boone
So far as I know, you can't go to R in the author list directly. The best you can do is go to `PRQS' from the first page of the index. If you've got 4000 books, then probably the PQRS section has about 40 page of flat index. So you then got to hunt for the author you want by to-ing and fro-ing through these 40 pages, where each button press takes a second or to to update the screen.
Unless there is some clever way of doing all this, which I have overlooked, then it just strikes me as unrewarding. Not impossible, sure, but irritatingly time-wasting.
I am interested in the OpenInkpot effort, also. But simply to improve the navigation on the PRS shouldn't require replacing the operating system. Or so it seems to me.
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I have no navigation problems at all. One of the tricks I do is to go though my entire index and bookmark things I will conviablely want to read inthe future. Also, there is the collections "feature" which is handy but I've had trouble getting both working at the same time (another sony firmware flaw), Igorsky I think his name is, has a collections manager software, that will parse your cache.xml, note the books are the in directories, so for instance, Robert.Adams-Horseclans/ and make a collection out of it. That's a reasonable way of managing, but until I did that, I just went for what I wanted, any time spent navigating was outweighed by the joy of having whatever I wanted, and I definately have spent more time reading than browsing. Plus I bookmarked religiously so I would have waypoints thoughout.