Kindle 3 limitations?

[Esquire1]

Originally Posted by jlmwrite

And as far as not having the processing power or firmware to handle everything: My year old HTC smartphone has over 600 novels and at least 100 reference books that I read using MobiPocket, a ton of full-length movies, a couple of hundred MP3s, more than a hundred family pics, interactive medical software, my entire schedule (including 6 months past data), and on and on. It can multitask, and fyi can load new books into MobiPocket just a fast as Windows can transfer 'em over the USB port.

Is your year old HTC smartphone a Kindle?

[mbovenka]

Originally Posted by Esquire1

Is your year old HTC smartphone a Kindle?

No, but the comparison is reasonable. They will be roughly comparable as far as CPU power is concerned (both 500-odd MHz ARM cores),

Indexing the books for search is not something MobiPocket Reader does, though, and I think it would probably take as long on his phone as it does on the Kindle.

[Esquire1]

Without knowing exactly which HTC smartphone it is, I'm not so sure of that. It's probably quite a bit faster than 500 Mhz. And that's just looking at the processor, nothing else. My Nexus One is about a year old and it's running the 1 Ghz Snapdragon. Admittedly, it is the first one to do so.

Indexing does take quite a bit of processing power. To me, Amazon cut corners where they had to. There's no point in including top of the line CPU power in something like an e-reader. And I applaud them for that. Keep focused on the purpose of the product and there won't be a need to increase the pricing. Sure, maybe indexing takes awhile, but it's only once in a blue moon. Of course, maybe Amazon should create the Kindle Genius where it includes an i7 processor, for people who want bragging rights :P

[jozicka]

Hi - just one small question.

I open file, charge is running, and the Kindle goes after some time to screen saver mode. Is the indexing still running?
Or shall I go to some option screen (setting, etc) to avoid going to screen saver mode and to sleep mode later?

[jozicka]

I was just curious - Have anybody tried to remove/rename folder "Search Indexes" from Kindle?

Like idea is - if there is no folder for indexing - no indexing will run.

(or second option - Kindle will halt and not boot any more, so that is why I'm asking if somebody has already taken the risk)

[jozicka]

S O L V E D !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So I took the risk:

1) I renamed folder "Search Indexes" to "Search Indexes1"
Failure - New folder "Search Indexes" was created after next usb plug in.

I did not give up.....

2) I set Index.db file to "read only" status at windows.
WORKING!! - after unplug from usb i can observe immediately fast response.

Actually after other plug to usb I could see the file is still getting bigger.

But speed is fine, so no problem.

May be the are some side effects, but I have already tried reset to "factory default", and after that the "read only" flag is gone.

[jozicka]

Originally Posted by cvkemp

What I have found it that if you move more than a hundred or so books on the the kindle at a time it will get very slow. So I have a netbook and I organize my books by using calibre and I only move to my kindle the books that I know I need at anyone time.
That way my kindle works at a very good speed. And seeing that my netbook is always with me if I travel or even at work I can add and remove books as I need to.
I have found it is not great to have a lot of books at anyone time on my kindle.
I am normally reading about 6 books at any one time so I have them and what I plan to read next. And I do have a few tech reference books that are always with me.

Actually you are right - I created on Kindle in root a new folder BOOKS and there is my complete collection.

To folder document I put only a few books. So I still have all my collection with me, and I'm still close with any computer with USB to copy new files from BOOKS directory.