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Originally Posted by HarryT
It would be nice to have better file management, yes, but for my needs at least, it would be a wild exageration to say that the Reader is "crippled" by it. I start a new book perhaps once a week, so if it takes me 5 minutes to find it, I'm really not that bothered.
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Alas, if it were only 5 minutes!
One of the main reasons I wanted to switch from the old GEB1150 (which, by the way, had a very nice file management system) was in order to carry more books than with fit on a puny 128MB SmartMemory wafer. My
purchased eBook library tops a gig, and my PD versions going on for days.
When I bought my PRS-500 I also picked up a new 2GB card to hold those books I may need when travelling, plus a good chunk of my regular reference and finction library. However, once I loaded everything up it became a nightmare to find anything. No subject sort, no categories if you're using a memory card or stick, and no goto page funtion within a book. You try paging through Mrs. Beetons Guide to Household management - 5000 pages - at either one, ten or 500 pages at a time.
One thing that some people seem to forget is that the PRS-500 is not just supposed to replace a single paper book, it's also supposed to replace a library, or a couple of bookcases.
As it stands I've had to downgrade it to a bookshelf or a small bookcase, just holding 100 or less titles at a time, actually using less memory than I did back in the bad old 128MB SmartMemory days.
I don't know, maybe it's just me, but what's the point in making a device than can hold 2000 books on it if you haven't a decent way of organizing them.
It may not be a crippling problem for some, but for other, it limits our ability to actually use this to its full potential and, might I add, its advertised potential.