3500 Books??? Really?

[grzzly]

HarryT gave me the awesome hint to hit a letter and press enter in the main menu. It gets you to the letter. Don't know if you knew that but that reduces 40 clicks to maybe 5

[namebrandon]

Originally Posted by grzzly

HarryT gave me the awesome hint to hit a letter and press enter in the main menu. It gets you to the letter. Don't know if you knew that but that reduces 40 clicks to maybe 5

I did NOT know that! Thanks to you both!!

[BVLarson]

I try to keep my list down to 100. Speeds up searching for a given title. You can always just download one again if you want to reread it, especially ez if you have the 3G unit as I do.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by namebrandon

I did NOT know that! Thanks to you both!!

This is why I always read manuals. They give you useful information .

[TheKindleWorm]

Originally Posted by grzzly

HarryT gave me the awesome hint to hit a letter and press enter in the main menu. It gets you to the letter. Don't know if you knew that but that reduces 40 clicks to maybe 5

I'll just add that you need to have your library sorted by author or title for this to work - before anyone gets frustrated by the fact that this tip doesn't work when sorting by collections!

[namebrandon]

Originally Posted by HarryT

This is why I always read manuals. They give you useful information .

Manuals... manuals.. No, I'm sorry, the concept doesn't ring any bells...

Originally Posted by TheKindleWorm

I'll just add that you need to have your library sorted by author or title for this to work - before anyone gets frustrated by the fact that this tip doesn't work when sorting by collections!

Yes, I found that out the hard way, after I searched for the letter 'H' in collections. It took about 3 minutes to come back to life after that one.

That information was probably in this mythical manual thing that that Dalek was talking about..

[chilady1]

Before the Collections feature, I didn't keep a lot of books on my Kindle because as others have mentioned, it was a nightmare to wade through all those books. However, after Collections was added, the largest number of books I kept on my K2 was 1200. I never experienced any type of performance issues with the devices.

Since receiving my K3, I have only loaded around 900 books. Since I mostly read series I have all of my Collections organized in that way. For example, Nora Roberts In Death series shows up as:

In Death - Nora Roberts, I organize all my Collections by character or series name and then author name.

I only keep unread books on my Kindle and delete once I have completed the series. If for any reason, I need to re-load or re-read the book, I just upload through Calibre.

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by Chumnutzly

Well, I have about 2600 books on my Kindle right now, and its still indexing, so performance isn't wonderful, but it isn't terrible either. Like it was mentioned before, I don't think its much of an issue once you get done indexing.

2600 mmmmm still short of the magical 3500 by 900.

do you intend to put any more on it?

i take it has indexed everything now.

could you know please explain to the audience exactly what the performance issues are and if they are special to you only or if you think they apply to every kindle.

i mean has someone else loaded a huge amount of books like 3500 and how does it perform?

i get the impression no two kindles are alike as different people are saying different things.another guy was saying he had 900 with no issues.you say you have 2600 and performance is not great whatever that means...could you all elaborate?

my kindle delivery date arrived today as being 29/9/2010 but in view of the issues raised i am thinking of canceling and then ordering it again in 2 weeks time which means i will get it in 6 weeks time maybe by which time some of the problems may have been ironed out.

[Tiersten]

Originally Posted by vugtitan

i get the impression no two kindles are alike as different people are saying different things[/B][/I].another guy was saying he had 900 with no issues.you say you have 2600 and performance is not great whatever that means...

Not sure why you're surprised by that. It would never be the same unless you have exactly the same number of books and exactly the same books. If I have 100 1000 word books in my Kindle then it is going to be indexed faster than somebody who has 10 100000 word books on their Kindle.

Originally Posted by vugtitan

my kindle delivery date arrived today as being 29/9/2010 but in view of the issues raised i am thinking of canceling and then ordering it again in 2 weeks time which means i will get it in 6 weeks time maybe by which time some of the problems may have been ironed out.

You'd still end up with one of the initial batches. If you want to wait for a revised batch then you're going to need to wait more than 2 weeks. Amazon use a Just-in-time system but the manufacturing side will have a certain stock of components and prebuilt parts to use up before they'll change anything.

[scott h]

Originally Posted by vugtitan

2600 mmmmm still short of the magical 3500 by 900.

do you intend to put any more on it?

i take it has indexed everything now.

could you know please explain to the audience exactly what the performance issues are and if they are special to you only or if you think they apply to every kindle.

i mean has someone else loaded a huge amount of books like 3500 and how does it perform?

i get the impression no two kindles are alike as different people are saying different things.another guy was saying he had 900 with no issues.you say you have 2600 and performance is not great whatever that means...could you all elaborate?

my kindle delivery date arrived today as being 29/9/2010 but in view of the issues raised i am thinking of canceling and then ordering it again in 2 weeks time which means i will get it in 6 weeks time maybe by which time some of the problems may have been ironed out.

I agree. I think you should cancel. You seemed more interested in proving them wrong than enjoying a good book.

Just because you CAN put 3500 books into something, doesn't mean you should. Kind of like buying a car that has a top speed of 110 and then zooming right out of the lot at top speed.

I have had no problems with mine. It holds A LOT of books. Most reasonable people understand that they did a simple calculation to help people understand APPROXIMATELY how many books it holds. It seems your knowledge about false advertising rivals your knowledge of data compression.

I am sure if the goal is to find 3,500 books to fit on the kinlde, it could be done. I, as well as most other people, simply don't want to take all of the time simply to try to prove someone wrong. If you are willing to pay for my time, I will find 3,500 books that will fit on the Kindle, making their statement "up to 3,500 books" completely accurate. But no one really seems to care...except you.

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by scott h

I agree. I think you should cancel. You seemed more interested in proving them wrong than enjoying a good book.

Just because you CAN put 3500 books into something, doesn't mean you should. Kind of like buying a car that has a top speed of 110 and then zooming right out of the lot at top speed.

I have had no problems with mine. It holds A LOT of books. Most reasonable people understand that they did a simple calculation to help people understand APPROXIMATELY how many books it holds. It seems your knowledge about false advertising rivals your knowledge of data compression.

I am sure if the goal is to find 3,500 books to fit on the kinlde, it could be done. I, as well as most other people, simply don't want to take all of the time simply to try to prove someone wrong. If you are willing to pay for my time, I will find 3,500 books that will fit on the Kindle, making their statement "up to 3,500 books" completely accurate. But no one really seems to care...except you.

Have you heard of any of Clarke's three laws?

[DiapDealer]

Have you heard of any of Clarke's three laws?

I've heard of all of them, actually.
Have you heard that he was a science fiction writer?

[abookreader]

I have a feeling that by the time I obtain 3500 eBooks (I'm at about 1200 now) The Kindle 5 or whatever will probably be able to hold 10,000.

I think I have around 450 actually on my Kindle right now. I've been loading and adding Collections most of the day. I'll see how performance is tonight when I'm reading but I'm not expecting any problems.

Some people around here sound suspiciously like my husband "Honey, its a 5 day vacation. Not even you can read 1200 books in 5 days."

[Williamlk]

I couldn't imagine even being able to read 3500 books in the time I have left on this planet!

[vugtitan]

Originally Posted by abookreader

I have a feeling that by the time I obtain 3500 eBooks (I'm at about 1200 now) The Kindle 5 or whatever will probably be able to hold 10,000.

I think I have around 450 actually on my Kindle right now. I've been loading and adding Collections most of the day. I'll see how performance is tonight when I'm reading but I'm not expecting any problems.

Some people around here sound suspiciously like my husband "Honey, its a 5 day vacation. Not even you can read 1200 books in 5 days."

I just saw on ebay a dvd with 16000 books for 2.99 and i was how you can play a dvd on a ebook reader.Maybe you have to t/f them a pc then to a ebook reader?.

I wonder if they are primed for a kindle in the sense of automatic collections.i would pay hard money so it is neatly organized already.

Has anyone actually bought these dvd and can they supply a list of authors/titles?

I would hate it if they were all Mills and Boom.