Deleting files on the Pocket Pro slow

[eGeezer]

Originally Posted by polly

... it sounded to me like Acrimonious was deleting books without using his system. ...

I agree with that. Although I initially assumed he was using a USB connection, as soon as I read your post, I assumed in-reader deletion was just another slow-to-document feature in the Astak. (Thanks, Javed, for the timely post before I wore out all my buttons in the attempt.)

The reminder to clarify what/whose firmware/reader is being quoted is still a good suggestion, but you can't be faulted for thinking you were talking about the same product.

On the other hand, I'm new to the ereading thing, too, and I'm wondering how he managed to get 750 books onto the internal memory of his ereader in so short a time. I'm still working on the 500 Astak included on the SD card, plus a few from BooksOnBoard and the library. I haven't even tried to figure out Calibre, yet.

[theducks]

Originally Posted by eGeezer

On the other hand, I'm new to the ereading thing, too, and I'm wondering how he managed to get 750 books onto the internal memory of his ereader in so short a time. I'm still working on the 500 Astak included on the SD card, plus a few from BooksOnBoard and the library. I haven't even tried to figure out Calibre, yet.

Wait for the next couple of Calibre releases to settle. I hear they are adding features to the Save to Device that might work better for you than the default

\author\title

when saved to the PEz. I think they assumed all e-book readers would always have a Meta-Data browser to locate.
I save to disk (PEz card)

\series\series_index-title

which works for me because some books in a series have different authors (combinations). Series index is the order of the books in a series and is prefixed to the title so the list sorts correctly on the PEz.
I have one format of every title from Baen Free Library and all the Baen (promo) CD's on the SD card (~ 300+ titles, all legal). Many of these were already in my dead tree collection so they lost almost nothing giving them away in e form.

[ezjim]

Originally Posted by eGeezer

Okee Dokee.

Got back from some chores and did a little experimenting.

Hooked up my Astak PPro via the USB cable, dragged and dropped the Astak "500+ Free eBooks" folder, which is about 250m, from my computer to the internal memory, and then to the SD card, then deleted both, then stuck the SD card in a card reader and did the same thing.

USB cable 250m file folder to int mem = 6 minutes. Delete same, 2 minutes.

USB cable 250m file folder to SD card = 3 minutes. Delete same, 20 sec.

SD Card in card reader, to SD card = 1 min 20 sec. Delete same, 15 sec.

I will grant that waiting 6 minutes for the file to transfer seemed like a half hour, and deleting seemed about as long, but those are the figures I got. Obviously, it will vary with each person's equipment, but there you go.

Hope it helps some.

The free files consist of many small text files. I suspect this is the root cause. ie Small files and writing to flash memory is not a good mix especially where re-writes to flash sectors are concerned. The difference between the "SD Card in card reader, to SD card" and the PP driven writes will be due to your PC drivers being faster at handling this.