sony 950 taking 10 minutes to load homescreen

[Bookworm_Girl]

Another thing that seems to help is I try to keep about 10% of the memory free. I have so far avoided an SD card with my 950, but I am going to need one soon. I agree that not all SD cards are equal. I remember that several years ago (2008? 2009?) Sony had a memory card recommendation guide - what sizes worked best despite what the allowable spec stated. It might have been for the 505.

[BaenSidhe]

Slowness might also be caused by a bad ebook. When ScalyFreak posted about slowness on the 950, I was having similar issues on my 650. It would take 5+ minutes to start up and what felt like 30 seconds to go to the home screen from a book. I *think* it got fixed when I ran Sigil to check a book that was crashing my reader. After I did that check, and without uploading the book to the reader, everything sped up. (I have Calibre setup to auto-update meta tags.)

[sovre]

I have tried backing up the Reader, reformatting the internal memory, then copying all my folders back--but this has had no noticeable effect on loading times. So I'm assuming I don't have any corruption in the database. I have more than 10% of internal memory free, so I can mark that off the list as a possible issue.

I am now in the process of moving some of my larger PDF files off of the main memory onto an SD card, to see if that will make any difference. vxf, you mentioned that not all SD cards are created equal, so I'm guessing you have really noticed a difference in loading times depending on the speed of the card? Right now I am just using an old card I had lying around, but I may invest in a new one. What speed do you recommend?

Thanks to those of you who identified annotations as a possible culprit. I do a great deal of highlighting and annotating while I read, so I think the next step for me will be to export some of my annotations and see the results of that.

[sovre]

One question about tags and collections:

I have tried to whittle down the number of tags on my books to create a smaller number of collections but many of the books I downloaded from Gutenberg came with a huge number of superfluous tags attached which I only later, over time, deleted. Now even though I have deleted those tags from the books in my Calibre library, some are still on the corresponding books on my device, and the Reader is using them to organize my books. Is there a way to make the metadata of the books on my device accord with the metadata of the same books in my Calibre library, without actually deleting all those books from the device and recopying them from the library?

[yugami]

Originally Posted by sovre

One question about tags and collections:
Is there a way to make the metadata of the books on my device accord with the metadata of the same books in my Calibre library, without actually deleting all those books from the device and recopying them from the library?

This should work (untested, but I need to do it too)

Preferences->Import/Export->Sending books

Set Metadata management to Automatic management

This is supposed to update metadata only upon device connect.

[Rizla]

Remove all books and do a factory reset. If you don't know what the latter is, search for it on the forum.

[ScalyFreak]

Originally Posted by Rizla

Remove all books and do a factory reset. If you don't know what the latter is, search for it on the forum.

That what I did. Removed all books, did a factory reset, and then cleaned up all tags in Calibre before reloading the books to the 950.

[vxf]

Originally Posted by sovre

I have tried backing up the Reader, reformatting the internal memory, then copying all my folders back--but this has had no noticeable effect on loading times. So I'm assuming I don't have any corruption in the database. I have more than 10% of internal memory free, so I can mark that off the list as a possible issue.

I am now in the process of moving some of my larger PDF files off of the main memory onto an SD card, to see if that will make any difference. vxf, you mentioned that not all SD cards are created equal, so I'm guessing you have really noticed a difference in loading times depending on the speed of the card? Right now I am just using an old card I had lying around, but I may invest in a new one. What speed do you recommend?

Thanks to those of you who identified annotations as a possible culprit. I do a great deal of highlighting and annotating while I read, so I think the next step for me will be to export some of my annotations and see the results of that.

I really did not keep tabs of the SD cards I tried. One thing I noticed is that if you go above 16GB, there is a noticeable slowdown (I think on paper it's supposed to support 32gb...).

I now have a SanDisk SDHC2 16gb card in mine, and that performs very well.

Also, I have a SONY MemoryStick Pro Duo Mark2 8gb and that seems pretty fast as well.

Wish I could provide more detail on the cards that were slow... but I don't have them anymore. Only thing I remember, a 32gb SanDisk I had was noticeably slower.

Another option i can think of is to install PRS+, move content to the SD card and disable indexing. Not sure what the drawbacks are - maybe someone with more tech understanding can explain what the benefits of indexing are.... I have PRS+, but I have not disabled indexing, because, ever since I move content to the SD card, things have been much smoother than when the same content was sitting on the internal memory... As I have said before, that makes no sense to me, but others have noticed it as well.