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Originally Posted by davidfor
Can you quantify that a bit?
By "1000's upon 1000's" are you talking 2000? 5000? 10000? 30000? 100000? Me, I expect that it gets slower as books are added. The question is when it slows enough to be noticeable and gets too slow to be useful. When I was using the Glo HD as my primary device, it had reached about 5000 books. But, there is no way I would consider using the word "crawl" describe using it.
And I are you talking about your experience on your devices? The ones you list all have 256MB of RAM compared to the 512MB in the newer devices. The extra memory will help. And it is noticeable when I compare my Glo to the Glo HD.
And the firmware version? From memory, you were staying away from the recent versions and using somewhere around 3.12 or 3.14. Or maybe 3.19. If that is still the case, then there is a severe performance bug in collection management. Opening the collections list slows down as more collections are added, and it gets worse as the collections get bigger. Opening a collection from the list was quick, but returning to the collections list was as slow as getting there in the first place. This was largely fixed in firmware 4.6.9960. Opening the collections list is quick, but does slow down with a lot of collections or large collections. Opening a collection and returning to the list is now quick.
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i'm using 3.16.0 on my first choice ereader (original Aura) and i have the latest firmware on my Kobo Touch, but as you rightly point out i don't like the newer firmwares because i can't stand the new home screen and that's putting it mildly.
i have just short of 3100 books about 1740 of them are on the external micro SD card the rest are obviously on the device. i have 14 pages of collections and your right it's slower going back out of a collection to the collections list than it is to open the collections in the first place. that's why i like the old home screen because i can have a dozen or so collections on it and get almost instant access to them.
at the moment yes it does take awhile to go back to the collections lists but i wouldn't say i had time to read war and peace so it's not that bad for now.
my earlier post was aimed mainly at if you do put a 64GB micro SD card in the device and were then tempted to fill it, you could quite easily end up with the higher numbers you mention. if so having pages upon pages of collections might not be the best/wisest idea.
it's good to know the newer devices do have double the memory that as you say will indeed help the cause.
best wishes koboy
