Transferring from Main Memory to Memory Card

Modern Bear · 12-13-2009, 05:59 AM

My wife has a PRS 700 and has put a lot of PDFs on it all semester. She also has made heavy use of annotations in those PDFs, I think ~1600 notes in total. With all the PDFs and notes, plus a few purchased text books the reader is now taking a long time to start up. Since she is done with the semester she wants to move all the PDFs and textbooks to a SD card, and keep the notes intact, in order to start fresh next semester with the main memory, plus hopefully have it start up quicker too.

I have looked at the reader software and have seen no way to do this, drag and drop doesn't seem to work from main memory to memory card. I also have Calibre and have seen no way to do this, plus if memory serves me right it doesn't support annotations anyway. My question is does anyone know of a relatively simple way to do this transfer, and keep notes intact (this is a must)? Would simply copying the entire file structure as is work?

HarryT · 12-13-2009, 06:16 AM

Using eBook Library, move the book from main memory into the library, and then from the library onto the memory card. That should certainly work.

Modern Bear · 12-13-2009, 07:24 AM

Thank you Harry, that worked and kept the notes intact.

As a side note, I did lose the tags I had put on them for her breaking them up into collections by class name when I transferred them that way (I used Calibre to make the tags originally) but I just created the same collections using the reader software and dragged the appropriate ones into the collections.

I don't remember being able to make collections using older versions of the Sony software, is that a recent addition or did I just miss that in the past?

HarryT · 12-13-2009, 07:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Modern Bear

Thank you Harry, that worked and kept the notes intact.

Great

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I don't remember being able to make collections using older versions of the Sony software, is that a recent addition or did I just miss that in the past?

Collections were introduced with the PRS-505, so the ability has certainly been around since then.

12-13-2009, 05:59 AM	#1
Modern Bear Member Posts: 17 Karma: 48 Join Date: May 2009 Location: New York, USA Device: Sony PRS 505 & 700	Transferring from Main Memory to Memory Card My wife has a PRS 700 and has put a lot of PDFs on it all semester. She also has made heavy use of annotations in those PDFs, I think ~1600 notes in total. With all the PDFs and notes, plus a few purchased text books the reader is now taking a long time to start up. Since she is done with the semester she wants to move all the PDFs and textbooks to a SD card, and keep the notes intact, in order to start fresh next semester with the main memory, plus hopefully have it start up quicker too. I have looked at the reader software and have seen no way to do this, drag and drop doesn't seem to work from main memory to memory card. I also have Calibre and have seen no way to do this, plus if memory serves me right it doesn't support annotations anyway. My question is does anyone know of a relatively simple way to do this transfer, and keep notes intact (this is a must)? Would simply copying the entire file structure as is work?

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12-13-2009, 06:16 AM	#2
HarryT eBook Enthusiast Posts: 85,560 Karma: 93980341 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis 2, iPad Pro 10.5", iPhone 6	Using eBook Library, move the book from main memory into the library, and then from the library onto the memory card. That should certainly work.

12-13-2009, 07:24 AM	#3
Modern Bear Member Posts: 17 Karma: 48 Join Date: May 2009 Location: New York, USA Device: Sony PRS 505 & 700	Thank you Harry, that worked and kept the notes intact. As a side note, I did lose the tags I had put on them for her breaking them up into collections by class name when I transferred them that way (I used Calibre to make the tags originally) but I just created the same collections using the reader software and dragged the appropriate ones into the collections. I don't remember being able to make collections using older versions of the Sony software, is that a recent addition or did I just miss that in the past?

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