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Originally Posted by sealbeater
Not to beat a dead horse, but I've tried the folders hack with noscan and it still stalls out at around 2 thousand books. If and when the author gets it to the point where it can load the cache.xml file without rescaning the card, this might be the way to go, as you can create the cache.xml file though other means. As it stands now, the "noscan" option acts as a simple file manager but you have to copy the book from SD to internal memory so that's a bit kludgy but it would work if it could actually load thousands of books. The firmware still seems to suffer from the same symptoms but I'm going to load books slow, I've done a bit of experimentation but haven't really had a chance to dig into it, maybe this weekend.
Your right tho, this thread did start a long time ago, I'm glad the author of the folders hack is working on it as well, it would be very nice.
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Two things to note here:
1) Reading cache.xml won't help seeing all books. There is a bug ("limitation") in libuss.so.
2) Whether reading cache.xml is feasible at all, is an open question. On the one hand, one "saves" the time to scan the file system. On the other, what should one do with gazillion books in "books by <whatever>"?
It was reported, that when you have loaded about 1300 books (it might depend on books if course) the ebook slows down:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=282
So far first aim would be "hot loading" books from SD card, without rescan. Then adding the "load cache.xml" support (without it, one won't be able to comfortably work with bookmarks etc). So basically it would be "you have thousands or tens of thousands of books on card, but only those that you actually read in cache.xml"