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Old 02-24-2010, 08:48 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Davimee View Post
Do most people load their books to the card, or directly to the reader? Is one better than the other?
My observation is that there's no difference between card and reader as far as transfer speed, page turns or formatting books goes. Personally, I use it to help with book management.

All of my unread books get loaded to the card, with author as the first folder and series as a subfolder. After I read a book, I move it to the reader if I want to be able to read it again and then I delete if from the card. In this way, I only have unread books on the card. Please note that I use the LBook firmware, which supports copying and deleting books directly from the reader, so I can do this step without connecting to a computer. When the book is moved to the reader, the folder structure goes with it, so it is automatically where I want it to be permanently stored. I don't believe that the Astak firmware supports this feature at this time.

Calibre does the folder creation for me automatically and I tag all unread books in Calibre as unread so I can easily find and convert them. It sounds sort of complicated, but it's easy once it's set up.
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