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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
I find it hard to believe that the kindle doesn't maintain a list of books it has found somewhere on the drive, after all if it didn't, every time it was rebooted it would have to scan everything again, making reboot times unnecessarily long, but maybe it's on a part of the drive not exported via USB or it's in encrypted form somewhere.
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Can't you just scan the books you need for the display? A global cache has to be updated and you have to write code for detecting new files and when files are removed so if you can get good performance without it it is an advantage not to have a cache.