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Tips for a large number of books
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My Kobo A1 LE, even with 32 GB of memory available, moves a lot slower with about 15.000 books on it, organized in collections via the autoshelf addon. Are there some tips and tricks for managing such a large number of books in a more efficient way? For instance, is there a way to make books folders not processed and not visible by Kobo, but I should see them (and "download" them) only via the web browser (for example)? Last edited by hfpop; 05-19-2018 at 04:26 AM. |
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all folders named dot something will not be processed by kobo like .hidden ; but i'm not sure you will be able to download inside them from the browser (they will be hidden so I'm not sure the browser will see them)
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In fairness, storage is a type of memory - persistent or non-volatile. It's just that "memory" is often used as shorthand to refer to volatile memory.
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When I say memory I do mean storage memory, not RAM.
The user interface is very slow, with waiting times. With 15000 books and 22 GB still available. I miss the point to offer 32GB if the whole architecture cannot process that number of books. The process to copy books from the hidden library can be a simple file manager that knows to do one thing: copy books from their place to a folder visible for kobo. |
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But, it also depends on how it is used. The 32GB of "stuff" in the Aura ONE LE is used as storage, not RAM or anything else that would normally be called "memory" when referring to computers.
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I commented because your first post made it seem you expected the Aura ONE LE to be faster than the standard Aura ONE. The only change is the amount of storage for books in them.
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Mind, I seem to recall RAM also referred to as primary storage and NVM secondary storage in the above-mentioned class. Last edited by ilovejedd; 05-20-2018 at 02:57 AM. |
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The 512MB of RAM is likely the source of some of your issues -- take a look at the size of your SQLite databases for instance, add in the size of the font files (all 4 files for fonts offering variants) for whichever fonts you are using and suddenly RAM is becoming a scarce commodity. |
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David, in principle you are right. But take a look at the official web page of Rakuten Kobo for A1-LE: https://us.kobobooks.com/products/ko...imited-edition . You see there their formal specs description: "32 GB on-board memory, holds up to 28,000 eBooks or 700 graphic novels and manga volumes".
They advertise their product is operational with 28,000 eBooks. They do know how much space the sqlite file takes (750 MB for half of that capacity). And they still advertise the 28,000 eBooks. I am not opening a debate here. I simply would like to know how I could best use 15,000 ebooks (never mind 28,000 ebooks) on my Kobo A1-LE. |
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As far as I know, there's nothing that allows you to get a book from a hidden (dot beginning) folder in the ereader, move it to a non-hidden folder and the ereader reads the ebook on the fly, adds it to the database and it appears in the Kobo library. |
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Just curious as to what sort of directory structure you're using for all these books.
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With respect to my original question. Let me try a complete answer. You do need programming experience for this. (1) Your library will have to stay in a dot folder, for instance /mnt/onboard/.books. This is the only useful information I learned on this thread. (2) You will use a file manager to copy whatever you need to the right place, for instance /mnt/onboard/books. The closest thing you have is KOReader. You need to set it to read hidden files, and to read files from that .books folder. You need to modify the lua sources to add a context sensitive menu option to do the file copy. (3) After exiting that file manager you will need to fire the books refresh function that happens after usb disconnect. This is the only thing not yet working correctly. An advice here is most welcome. And please, do not say it cannot be done. |
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