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Old 06-18-2010, 12:45 PM   #18
Solitaire1
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I agree that the best move is to store the ebooks you want to hide on an SD card. That way, there is no way for someone to view ebooks that you may not want them to see (such as stories that you may be writing that are not ready to be shared with others). Other methods don't actually prevent people from viewing ebooks you don't want them to see.

As far as collections go, I use collections to control where my ebooks are stored. Some collections are stored on my ereader's internal memory and others I store on my SD card. What I don't do is split collections between the two locations, each collection is either completely in my ereader's internal memory or completely on the SD card.
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What's your rationale for this?
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If you put items from one collection (let's call the collection Urban Fantasy) on the SD card and in internal memory you get two identically named collections. Urban Fantasy would be listed twice under collections. One collection would have items from the SD card the other collection would have items from internal memory.
I sync my collections to my ereader. To add to the above, if you designate the same collection to sync your ereader's internal memory (IM) and to the the memory card(s), not only will the collection appear in both locations, but the ebooks in the collection will be loaded in both locations too.

In addition to the above reason, I have more ebooks than will fit in my ereader's internal memory. Although I like the formatting control that using PDF gives me, the tradeoff is the size of the files. As an example, I have formatted the Project Gutenberg version of Silas Marner as a PDF and it takes up 1.2MB of space (compared to the original 402KB text file).

Another advantage of syncing collections is that it makes it easy to move my ebooks to the location I want. If I decide to move a collection from my ereader's IM to a memory card all I have to do is click on two checkboxes (one to unsync it from the memory card and one to sync it to my ereader's internal memory) and then sync my ereader.

This extends to reloading my ereader. I recently tried Calibre with my ereader and ended up with a massive number of collections (more than 100) due to tag information contained in my ebooks. Rather than manually deleting the unwanted collections, I formatted my ereader and synced it with the Sony Reader Library. A few minutes later my ebooks and their associated collections were back on my reader.
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