Limit for SD and Memory Stick files?

Armaced · 08-17-2009, 01:00 PM

This is purely an academic question.

The PRS-505 has those expansion ports for Memory Sticks and SD cards. I have an 8 GB SD card - if I were to somehow fill that up, that would be a whole lot of books. Is the PRS-505 capable of holding that many books?

If not, does anybody know how many can it handle? Or, is there a hard restriction on how big the memory cards can be?

It looks like it creates a DB file on the card when the card is inserted. I suppose that file could grow as big as it needed to be, though the device may become unmanagable if there were to many books on it.

Who are you? · 08-17-2009, 02:05 PM

When you have a large amount of books you need to take special steps to make it work, and indeed the startup time gets to be long when you have many books.

Check out https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30849 for more information.

Armaced · 08-17-2009, 02:24 PM

Wow, OK - it sounds like I will want to keep the number of books on the device down to a managable number.

ahi · 08-17-2009, 05:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Armaced

Wow, OK - it sounds like I will want to keep the number of books on the device down to a managable number.

If I understood sealbeater's experience correctly... the problem is not the number of books, but how many new ones you add at a time.

If you keep adding a few dozen or a hundred books here and there, and make your way to 4000+ books, it should be fine. If you want to go from 0 to 4000 in less then a week, that's where it gets difficult.

- Ahi

08-17-2009, 01:00 PM	#1
Armaced Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony eReader PRS-505	Limit for SD and Memory Stick files? This is purely an academic question. The PRS-505 has those expansion ports for Memory Sticks and SD cards. I have an 8 GB SD card - if I were to somehow fill that up, that would be a whole lot of books. Is the PRS-505 capable of holding that many books? If not, does anybody know how many can it handle? Or, is there a hard restriction on how big the memory cards can be? It looks like it creates a DB file on the card when the card is inserted. I suppose that file could grow as big as it needed to be, though the device may become unmanagable if there were to many books on it.

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08-17-2009, 02:05 PM	#2
Who are you? Groupie Posts: 184 Karma: 300001 Join Date: May 2009 Device: 505	When you have a large amount of books you need to take special steps to make it work, and indeed the startup time gets to be long when you have many books. Check out https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30849 for more information.

08-17-2009, 02:24 PM	#3
Armaced Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Device: Sony eReader PRS-505	Wow, OK - it sounds like I will want to keep the number of books on the device down to a managable number.

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