11-06-2017, 12:08 AM | #31 | |
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11-06-2017, 12:21 AM | #32 | |
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There is no weight penalty to carrying more books and while the processing (indexing for a Kindle owner) does take some time when you initially setup the device, I haven't noticed any performance penalties after that step is done. If nothing else, there are still areas where WiFi or cellular service is not readily available to connect to your books in the cloud so when I have a 15 minute break, I don't want to spend the majority of that time trying to download a book. An interesting theory but it doesn't work that way for me. The more books, the better chance I will find one I currently feel like reading. Not to mention that I have quite a few work related books (Microsoft, Cisco, VMWare, etc.) in pdf or epub format. While I prefer to read the pdfs on a larger screen, in case of need, my ereader does work. |
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11-06-2017, 12:26 AM | #33 |
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I thought he said that his main reason for purchasing his KO2 was so he could keep a larger portion of his eBook library on it. Publishing his results is for the benefit of others.
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11-06-2017, 02:18 AM | #34 |
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I had just under 27.5gb of free storage initially.
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11-06-2017, 02:25 AM | #35 |
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11-06-2017, 05:05 AM | #36 | |
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As others have noted, the Kindle will not go into deep sleep when charging, only into the sort of sleep you get by hitting the power button, which is more or less just turning off the screen (on battery, all sleeps, deep or not, also switch wifi to a slower polling cycle: no idea what effect it has on 3G but likely something similar). |
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11-06-2017, 05:33 AM | #37 | |
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11-07-2017, 12:18 AM | #38 |
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when i first got mine, i moved 2500+ from calibre onto my new oasis and it took about 24 hours, so yes, 100 per hour is about right. for 12 of those hours i left it on the charger as it did indeed drain the battery in one day.
since then i decided to clean my entire calibre library up along with my docs on the kindle web page, so i'm now going one-by-one through my files and fixing all the metadata. i only got about 75 done today so it's going to be a project that stretches well into winter. but it does allow me to move less than 100 files at a time back onto the kindle. btw, the oasis remained stable and responsive for me throughout the indexing process even though i was poking and prodding the new toy for hours. i've pulled this same stunt with previous kindles and they flat vapor-locked. /guy |
11-07-2017, 02:29 AM | #39 |
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Another example of strange behaviour while asleep: yesterday afternoon I loaded another batch of 900 books. Indexing proceeded normally through the evening, and by the time I went to bed at around 10pm, the number of unindexed books was down to 376. I left the Kindle on a wall charger overnight, and when I turned it on this morning, expecting indexing to have finished, there were 370 books unindexed - ie it had done only 6 overnight. As soon as I switched it on, it started indexing normally again, and it's now, an hour later, down to 272.
This Kindle just does not like indexing while asleep and on external power, it seems! |
11-07-2017, 08:07 AM | #40 | |
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11-07-2017, 09:10 AM | #41 | |
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It does seem to be something related to that, though. It's processing today's batch of about 650 added books at the moment (the "Q" and "R" authors), connected to the wall charger. I'm checking it about every 15 minutes (by which time it's gone to sleep, of course), and indexing is going along fine - every time I check it it's processed another 30 books or so. It's when you leave it for longer than that that it seems to stop indexing. It is, as you suggest, almost as if it is sort of going into deep sleep, even though it does wake up instantly. No big deal; just an interesting curiosity to be aware of. One thing's for sure, and that's that when it's awake, it indexes enormously faster than older models do, presumably because of the faster CPU. |
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11-07-2017, 03:05 PM | #42 |
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well, just after i bragged about how well my oasis was handling indexing, it failed. it might be because i removed 2500 books so i could start cleaning up my calibre library and adding them back in small batches. i loaded the first 10 last night and when i woke up this morning it still had 6 to index and i can't get it to start up again even after a restart and plugging it in.
<nevermind: i just checked and it's down to 5. it only took 24 hours to index those 2500 files the first time so it should have indexed only 10 in less than 10-15 minutes. i suspect me deleting all those books after they were indexed has borked the index files on the oasis or else krufted them up. but i just checked again and it's now finished so i'll check things again the next batch i add to make sure it has recovered the previous level of functioning.> /guy |
11-09-2017, 08:32 AM | #43 |
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More thoughts on this:
Several days' more experimentation have shown that if I leave my Kindle along, connected to a power supply, for anything up to about 20m, once it goes to sleep (which happens after about 5m of inactivity) it continues to index at full speed. Leave it for longer than about 20m, though, and indexing essentially stops, only resuming again when I wake the Kindle up by opening the cover or pressing the power button. |
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11-09-2017, 12:09 PM | #45 | |
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I still think that if indexing is in progress and the charger is attached, it should defer deep sleep. That would result in 0 net change in electricity use and a significant benefit to the customer, which Amazon claim to have an extreme focus on. If they really want to be helpful, indexing should stop if the charger is disconnected and the battery drops below 25% whether it is asleep or awake. |
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