Thread: Maximum practical files number?
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Old 12-31-2019, 11:26 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by Richwood View Post
I note that the Kobo description on a couple of the current 8 GB Kobo readers lists their capacity as up to 5000 books. Is this genuine or a exaggeration? At what number of files does the response deteriorate to unacceptable levels or things start to hang up or crash intermittently?
You would need ebooks with few images to fit 5000 on an 8GB device. That being said, I have had ~11,000 books on a Clara HD with an 32GB uSD card replacing the factory 8GB card. The two issues I noted were that search is the only way to find books in the library (*) and with the database size pushing RAM size, there were some 1-2 second hesitations at times.

* I don't find scrolling through pages of library or collections as a useful way of finding my next read when there are 2200+ pages. Other's mileage may vary.
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