How many Readers are out there? - Page 9

RWood · 06-03-2007, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by melechmet

I own one since mid March and love it. Have a 4gb SD card for it. I'd definately recommend it.

There are a lot of people reporting that only the first 2 GB of the SD card can be read.

JSWolf · 06-03-2007, 08:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by melechmet

I own one since mid March and love it. Have a 4gb SD card for it. I'd definately recommend it.

only the first 2GB of that SD card will work. You'd be better off getting a 2GB SD card instead so you won't have any problems going past the 2GB limit.

athlonkmf · 06-04-2007, 07:23 AM

i was wondering if a 4GB (or even 8GB) memory stick would work correctly with the reader.

Still. it's cheaper to buy 10 2GB sd-cards than 1 8GB stick (or 3 2GB sd vs 1 4GB stick)
I just don't like swapping cards. The reader isn't really well suited for that.

NatCh · 06-04-2007, 09:33 AM

Oh, it'll work, athlonkmf ... for the fist 2 GB worth of stuff anyway, but it won't see anything beyond the first 2 GB (and we don't have any idea how it decides which is the 'first' part of the card).

yvanleterrible · 06-04-2007, 10:00 AM

2GBs of books without going to the computer?

Man that's a long holiday!

NatCh · 06-04-2007, 10:01 AM

Yes, yes it is.

melechmet · 06-04-2007, 11:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RWood

There are a lot of people reporting that only the first 2 GB of the SD card can be read.

Well, the card shows up, I havent nearly filled it up tough

My only two complaints with the reader are the slow page refresh and the poor book organization method, things already mentioned. Having said that, it is still well worth buying.

athlonkmf · 06-04-2007, 01:52 PM

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Originally Posted by NatCh

Oh, it'll work, athlonkmf ... for the fist 2 GB worth of stuff anyway, but it won't see anything beyond the first 2 GB (and we don't have any idea how it decides which is the 'first' part of the card).

I was talking about memory sticks. According to the manual, the reader accepts 4GB M-sticks.

athlonkmf · 06-04-2007, 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

2GBs of books without going to the computer?

Man that's a long holiday!

Either that, or it's a very large collection of manga and comics

NatCh · 06-04-2007, 02:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by athlonkmf

I was talking about memory sticks. According to the manual, the reader accepts 4GB M-sticks.

Huh. I guess I hadn't paid much attention, since I use SDs rather than MSs. I don't recall if anyone has reported on a 4 GB MS yet or not ....

RWood · 06-04-2007, 05:05 PM

Now the average Harvard Classics volume in LRF is less than 600 kB in size. Assuming that there is 0 bytes of overhead on a 2 GB SD card, that would allow you to store 3,333 books per card. Even with a 20 MB overhead that would still give you 3,000 books which should be enough books to keep most people happy for at least a week or two.

melechmet · 06-04-2007, 05:50 PM

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Originally Posted by athlonkmf

Either that, or it's a very large collection of manga and comics

That is not a large manga collection.

athlonkmf · 06-04-2007, 07:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RWood

Now the average Harvard Classics volume in LRF is less than 600 kB in size. Assuming that there is 0 bytes of overhead on a 2 GB SD card, that would allow you to store 3,333 books per card. Even with a 20 MB overhead that would still give you 3,000 books which should be enough books to keep most people happy for at least a week or two.

Like said, I'm using the reader mainly for manga and comics-collection. One with 2000 pages is about 100 MB. That is about the average for one serie.
So with 2GB I can "merely" hold about 40.000 pages. Which boils down to a 20 series...
Still good enough of course for quite a good time of reading.

But I like to say to people "see those two cabinets full of manga"? They fit inside this thingie.

NatCh · 06-04-2007, 08:56 PM

Just a random thought -- has anyone tried running a Manga collection through BookDesigner? It gets a big size reduction over RTF, but I don't know how much, if any, it might get over a set of, say, JPG files. Just wondering if anyone's tried it, and could comment.

athlonkmf · 06-04-2007, 09:38 PM

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Originally Posted by NatCh

Just a random thought -- has anyone tried running a Manga collection through BookDesigner? It gets a big size reduction over RTF, but I don't know how much, if any, it might get over a set of, say, JPG files. Just wondering if anyone's tried it, and could comment.

well, my program creates pdf-files which I run through rasterfarian, while retaining the toc.

i don't know if bookdesigner can handle pdf otherwise i can try it.

(i doubt it can further compress such a mangacollection though. My program already cuts a lot of the size, and rasterfarian cuts even more)

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06-04-2007, 07:23 AM	#123
athlonkmf Guru Posts: 714 Karma: 1014039 Join Date: May 2007 Device: Sony PRS-500, Sony PRS-505, Kindle 3, Sony PRS350, iPad 64GB	i was wondering if a 4GB (or even 8GB) memory stick would work correctly with the reader. Still. it's cheaper to buy 10 2GB sd-cards than 1 8GB stick (or 3 2GB sd vs 1 4GB stick) I just don't like swapping cards. The reader isn't really well suited for that. Last edited by athlonkmf; 06-04-2007 at 07:28 AM.

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06-04-2007, 09:33 AM	#124
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Oh, it'll work, athlonkmf ... for the fist 2 GB worth of stuff anyway, but it won't see anything beyond the first 2 GB (and we don't have any idea how it decides which is the 'first' part of the card).

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NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Yes, yes it is.

06-04-2007, 05:05 PM	#131
RWood Technogeezer Posts: 7,233 Karma: 1601464 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Virginia, USA Device: Sony PRS-500	Now the average Harvard Classics volume in LRF is less than 600 kB in size. Assuming that there is 0 bytes of overhead on a 2 GB SD card, that would allow you to store 3,333 books per card. Even with a 20 MB overhead that would still give you 3,000 books which should be enough books to keep most people happy for at least a week or two.

06-04-2007, 08:56 PM	#134
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Just a random thought -- has anyone tried running a Manga collection through BookDesigner? It gets a big size reduction over RTF, but I don't know how much, if any, it might get over a set of, say, JPG files. Just wondering if anyone's tried it, and could comment.

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