07-11-2011, 05:00 PM | #1 |
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I went to Borders today to play with the Kobo touch. Let me just say 'Nice!' They dont' have to updated firmware on it, but I still think it was faster than the Nook. But there was one question the nice lady couldn't answer, so I thought I would ask here.
I like my books stored on the micro sd card, about 2000 books. Yes, all of them, I'm anal. But I like to be able to make folders to organize them in, and sub folders. I have folders with every letter of the alphabet, then under that I have authors by last name, then series written by that author under that, then the books. My Astak EZ Reader allows this, and when I took a card in to try in the nook touch it allowed it. Does the Kobo allow this, and if not will a future firmware update allow it? Please! Thanks for the info. S |
07-11-2011, 05:19 PM | #2 |
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Well the Kobo WILL find the files; however, it will (at the momemt) only display the books by Author, Title or Last Read data. ie: your folder structure would not be used in the listing of books.
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07-11-2011, 05:55 PM | #3 |
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here's hoping that they add folders to the kobo, i only have 14 books on my kobo but it would be a welcome feature
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07-11-2011, 06:27 PM | #4 |
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Collections is a fairly universal feature on ereaders, so I hope they add it to the Kobo soon.
One thing I would be curious about though is how the Kobo Touch would react to an SD card with 2000 books on it. I'm wondering if the SD card would be slower to access than internal memory, I assume it would. I also wonder if that many books would noticeably slow down the Kobo Touch. I assume if you loaded the SD card with 2000 books via your computer and then popped that puppy into the Kobo Touch you would be doing a lot of waiting while it indexed all of them! Most ereaders seem to take a long time indexing that many files. It might even choke, thus requiring you to add the books a few at a time. If anyone tries this please let us now it it goes. |
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Well, I'll give my old 6" EZ Reader credit. It takes no time to index, never chokes. I do love that reader, but it is rather slow on the page turns.
Please Kobo, put folder browsing on the Touch! S |
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IS this something that can be addressed by a firmware update, or is it built into the hardware? I wish I understood more about these things. Thanks for the info! S |
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07-14-2011, 12:27 PM | #12 |
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Honestly, I have no idea if you can search on it or now. With the folder system I have never needed to search for a book. I'll look at it later and see if I can figure out if it has searching. But, if it doesn't have searching, that is probably why it is so fast.
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No search feature, question answered!
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You can search by book title, author, and ISBN but not within a book.
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