11-08-2018, 01:50 PM | #301 | |
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Calibre 3.34 is now available and adds the new PW4 capability. I'm transferring books to my new PW4 currently. |
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11-08-2018, 02:09 PM | #302 |
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i just installed the calibre update which has the new pw support.
i quite like it so far. the verdict is still out when comparing it with the oasis 2 which is fine, but i have ergonomic issues with it being too wide and the cover too easily dislodged, thus i really like the more narrow pw, but then again i like having the option of physical /page/buttons but you can't have cake and eat it i guess. the pw is just noticeably slower on page turns than the oasis and there's a 'flash' every time whereas on the oasis i only get a flash every 3-4 turns. but the pw screen is very sharp and even with my bad eyes i can dial down the font size enough to get a good-sized chunk of text on the screen. as i said earlier, i got the 32gb version of the pw in anticipation of putting my full 2400 ebook library on it along with my purchased kindle books and my 400 docs. but now i wish i'd saved $30 and got the 8gb version and put my whole library on my 32gb oasis 2 and used the pw for casual reading while keeping it loaded with less than a dozen books in my read next queue. and if amazon hadn't sold out of nearly all covers by the time i ordered i could have saved more money by not getting a bundle considering the power adapter is $20 and virtually worthless. to put this plan into effect and despite the good advice i got (!), i installed all 2400 calibre books onto the oasis 2 about this time yesterday. it hung at about 1750 books yet to index and i deleted 5 books and it started up again. i left it on power all night and this morning it had hung at about 500 left to go and again i deleted 5 books and it picked up again. as i type this there are only 8 books left to go, so a rough estimate on time to index was 24 hours for 2400 items (not counting how long the two 'hangs' cost me) or one hour per 100 books. /guy |
11-08-2018, 03:52 PM | #303 |
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i might note that after loading nearly 3000 books onto a 32gb oasis 2 with a very high percentage of those being large books such as music and science and technical and reference books, it only took approximately 5gb of space. i post this for those not knowing whether they need the 32 gb models and turns out that unless i add double what i have, i wasted the $30 each i spent on the oasis and the new pw model. but i remember trying to load the calibre library onto a 4gb kindle and failing, so i guess i over-compensated.
i might note that i don't have any magazines or comic books or graphic novels or audible books, any category of which could easily change the equation. /guy |
11-08-2018, 04:14 PM | #304 | |
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Graphic novels definitely change the equation, though. My manga volumes average 100MB per and they're like 15-30 minute reads compared to a 600KB novel. |
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11-08-2018, 04:19 PM | #305 | |
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i read that the kindle indexes every word in every book and my worry was that there would be so many total words, it would overflow buffers or if there was a fixed amount of storage allocated for the word list. /guy |
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11-08-2018, 04:41 PM | #306 | |
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Amazon never announces under the hood specs, I think. Per this link though, Oasis 2 has 512MB. https://goodereader.com/blog/electro...kindle-oasis-2 For what it's worth, with a little over 700 books, my Index.db is ~13MB, the entire Search Indexes folder is ~90MB and the biggest index file is ~1.8MB for an 850K words book. |
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11-08-2018, 04:53 PM | #307 |
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ok, after the dust has settled, here's the damage:
space used on kindle: 4.5 gb /documents/ folder size: 3.12 gb items in /search indexes/ folder: 2730 /search indexes/ folder size: 822 mb largest file in /search indexes/ folder: 13.8 mb index.db size: 122 mb good info, tks! Last edited by gteague; 11-08-2018 at 08:17 PM. |
11-08-2018, 09:36 PM | #308 | |
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Apparently the voice data has to be loaded into RAM and 256MB is not big enough for that. |
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05-26-2019, 06:54 AM | #309 |
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how better does the text show on the pw4 compared to pw3? the text on pw3 is washed out and not so clear. anyone once owned these two? thanks
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05-26-2019, 10:35 PM | #310 |
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A lot have commented the PW3 is clearer. Mine isn't washed out at all, so it may depend on your particular device. Mileage varies depending on which one you own.
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