505 Bookmark hitch - Page 2

neilmarr · 10-01-2009, 05:40 AM

Hya, Gwyn: No I didn't lose anything at all.

Mind you -- after, I suspect, overloading my PRS with too many stored books and getting bad performance in the first few weeks -- I'm careful to keep my reader very simple and 'lightweight' these days and let my PC and laptop do all the library storage and catalogue work.

I treat my PRS a bit like hand-luggage now. I only store in it what I'm likely to need over the next couple of weeks and delete titles as soon as I've finished a read (they're always ready on my big machines to re-download any time, so why carry around the extra baggage in a reader?).

I have maybe a dozen books in there just now and (apart from the wee hiccup earlier this week; which I susect was caused by a bungled download on my part), it performs beautifully and at lightning speed.

Just been reading in another thread here someone complaining about long opening time on a Sony 300 after downloading several thousand books. Someone else said he had 'only' 980 books in his. Took great self-control not to add a post simply asking 'why?' Seems potty to me.

Hoots. Neil

DrMoze · 10-01-2009, 09:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by neilmarr

treat my PRS a bit like hand-luggage now. I only store in it what I'm likely to need over the next couple of weeks and delete titles as soon as I've finished a read (they're always ready on my big machines to re-download any time, so why carry around the extra baggage in a reader?).

I have maybe a dozen books in there just now and (apart from the wee hiccup earlier this week; which I susect was caused by a bungled download on my part), it performs beautifully and at lightning speed.

Just been reading in another thread here someone complaining about long opening time on a Sony 300 after downloading several thousand books. Someone else said he had 'only' 980 books in his. Took great self-control not to add a post simply asking 'why?' Seems potty to me.

Hoots. Neil

No nned to be quite so conservative. I've been keeping about 100-120 books on my 505 for a long time now, without a hitch. (It's my reading list for the foreseeable future; I delete books I've read, and occasionally add some. At least I did; my gf is taking over the 505 now that I have a 300.)

You clearly have more self-control than I do.

Several times here I've asked people WHY they insist on loading many hundreds, if not thousands, of books on their Reader and in memory cards.

There's no need to load books that you don't plan on reading any time soon. Archiving is better done on a less-portable pc or at-home hard drive anyway.

kennyc · 10-01-2009, 09:52 PM

Glad things finally worked out and I'll keep that 10x thing in mind should it happen to me.

I too fail to understand having your entire library on the reader.

More than a mouthful is wasted, eh?

neilmarr · 10-02-2009, 02:20 AM

Before I did a 'hard' memory re-format and cleared everything I had on board, I had 173 books stored. The hitch started when I downloaded another two whopping tomes from Ken Follet, which some more experienced users here said might have been a kinda last straw. Don't really know how true that is -- because some readers seem to store hundreds or even thousands of titles -- but I've had not a single hitch since I started to use a wall changer (which, granted makes a huge difference in itself) and decided to keep my 'portable' library to between a dozen and two dozen, on the tried-and-tested better-safe-than-sorry principle. Mind you, I'm always within easy reach of the bigger machines were my permanent library is kept ready to download or re-download anything I need; I do appreciate that toting a heck of a lot of material in a reader may be necessary for some users who might be away from their home-base libraries for long periods of time; especially those who may need volumed of various reference books.

June · 10-02-2009, 03:20 AM

I have a 505, and have had around 200-250 books on my reader all the time, and no problems (knock on wood). I load all my unread books on the reader, maybe 10 books a week, and delete the book from the 505 when I have read it. The main library/archive is handled by Calibre.

Just checking... my 505 has 257 books on it (main memory, around 40MB free) in 10 collections, and 17 bookmarks, some books are long ones of 1500+ 'pages' and most are regular 300-600 'pages', some manuals in pdf format are over 10MB in size. So I'd say the 505 is capable of handling a nice amount of books.

neilmarr · 10-02-2009, 04:39 AM

Hya June: I've no doubt at all that you're right and that the PRS can handle many, many more books than I ask it to carry. I'm in a lucky situation (if you can call it that) in that I'm pretty well housebound, so I don't travel these days and all I need in the reader is a few reference books and current lunchtime/bedtime fiction reading. The computers are only a room away, so all I might want in the long term is within easy reach. It's good to know, though, that I should feel safe uplading several more titles next time I find myself on my back in a hospital bed for weeks on end. There's a thought -- hospitals should promote e-readers and have book download facilities. Maybe retirement homes, too, and prisons and cruise ships, and airlines. Hoots. Neil

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10-01-2009, 05:40 AM	#16
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Hya, Gwyn: No I didn't lose anything at all. Mind you -- after, I suspect, overloading my PRS with too many stored books and getting bad performance in the first few weeks -- I'm careful to keep my reader very simple and 'lightweight' these days and let my PC and laptop do all the library storage and catalogue work. I treat my PRS a bit like hand-luggage now. I only store in it what I'm likely to need over the next couple of weeks and delete titles as soon as I've finished a read (they're always ready on my big machines to re-download any time, so why carry around the extra baggage in a reader?). I have maybe a dozen books in there just now and (apart from the wee hiccup earlier this week; which I susect was caused by a bungled download on my part), it performs beautifully and at lightning speed. Just been reading in another thread here someone complaining about long opening time on a Sony 300 after downloading several thousand books. Someone else said he had 'only' 980 books in his. Took great self-control not to add a post simply asking 'why?' Seems potty to me. Hoots. Neil

10-01-2009, 09:52 PM	#18
kennyc The Dank Side of the Moon Posts: 35,897 Karma: 119230421 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Denver, CO Device: Kindle2; Kindle Fire	Glad things finally worked out and I'll keep that 10x thing in mind should it happen to me. I too fail to understand having your entire library on the reader. More than a mouthful is wasted, eh?

10-02-2009, 02:20 AM	#19
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Before I did a 'hard' memory re-format and cleared everything I had on board, I had 173 books stored. The hitch started when I downloaded another two whopping tomes from Ken Follet, which some more experienced users here said might have been a kinda last straw. Don't really know how true that is -- because some readers seem to store hundreds or even thousands of titles -- but I've had not a single hitch since I started to use a wall changer (which, granted makes a huge difference in itself) and decided to keep my 'portable' library to between a dozen and two dozen, on the tried-and-tested better-safe-than-sorry principle. Mind you, I'm always within easy reach of the bigger machines were my permanent library is kept ready to download or re-download anything I need; I do appreciate that toting a heck of a lot of material in a reader may be necessary for some users who might be away from their home-base libraries for long periods of time; especially those who may need volumed of various reference books.

10-02-2009, 03:20 AM	#20
June Addict Posts: 306 Karma: 4508151 Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Scandinavia Device: Kobo Libra, Oasis 1&2 and others	I have a 505, and have had around 200-250 books on my reader all the time, and no problems (knock on wood). I load all my unread books on the reader, maybe 10 books a week, and delete the book from the 505 when I have read it. The main library/archive is handled by Calibre. Just checking... my 505 has 257 books on it (main memory, around 40MB free) in 10 collections, and 17 bookmarks, some books are long ones of 1500+ 'pages' and most are regular 300-600 'pages', some manuals in pdf format are over 10MB in size. So I'd say the 505 is capable of handling a nice amount of books.

10-02-2009, 04:39 AM	#21
neilmarr neilmarr Posts: 7,215 Karma: 6000059 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Monaco-Menton, France Device: sony	Hya June: I've no doubt at all that you're right and that the PRS can handle many, many more books than I ask it to carry. I'm in a lucky situation (if you can call it that) in that I'm pretty well housebound, so I don't travel these days and all I need in the reader is a few reference books and current lunchtime/bedtime fiction reading. The computers are only a room away, so all I might want in the long term is within easy reach. It's good to know, though, that I should feel safe uplading several more titles next time I find myself on my back in a hospital bed for weeks on end. There's a thought -- hospitals should promote e-readers and have book download facilities. Maybe retirement homes, too, and prisons and cruise ships, and airlines. Hoots. Neil

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