My wife bought me a KOBO-Touch(K-T) a week ago. I was very impressed with the new FW 2.0 update. We already had an account with KoboBooks as I had purchased her a K-T Christmas of 2010. The new FW was a big improvement to the original FW that we experienced back in 2010.
BUT, I then proceeded to load up my Library of e-books that I have for my various reading devices. My Library (over 2500 e-books/Docs) consists of a Folder Tree that may have as many as 4 levels of folders.( eg: /SD-Main Library/Authors/author name/their e-books as well as other folders under the /SD-Main Library such as /Manuals/sub folders/sub folder etc.).
This system made it easy for me to maintain/organize my "Library" on my PC and replicate it over multple devices.
When I applied this format to an 8 Gig Micro SDHC card and inserted it into the K-T I started running into problems. The response time became very sluggish during certain actions such as taking 2 minutes to go to the Home menu after pressing "Home" from within a book. When in Library mode I could open an e-book and return to the "Library" in a reasonable amount of time but if I pressed "Home" instead it would take approx. 2 minutes to return to the Home menu.
If I removed my external sdhc card the response was better but returned on re-inserting the sdhc card. Response just got worst over time.
I am not new to e-readers and the various apps for PC/Android.
All my devices have vendor supplied updates (no hacks).
So I reset the device back to factory - re-applied the new FW update on initialization - sync'ed to our web account but stilled had the same problem after inserting the card.
So I swapped my e-books over from the 8 gig (Class 4) card to a 16g Class 10 card I had for my camera. I figured that using a high speed Micro-SDHC card should give me the best response. The sluggishness did not go away.
Then I remember about an issue with one of my e-readers that involved too many nested folders. I adjusted my Library of e-books to one folder for each grouping or category and placed these in the root of a 8 gig Class 4 Micro SDHC and my problem was resolved.
Now I have my 2500+ e-books/docs on my reader and my response time is fantastic ( within 2-4 seconds depending on the action - page turns are instant). I know that it would probably be better with the Class 10 card but that has gone back into my Digi-camera.
Moral of the story - avoid too many nested folders or as others would say - KISS "Keep It Simple Stupid"
Looking forward to further FW update improvments.
Hope this helps other avoid this pitfall.
John
BUT, I then proceeded to load up my Library of e-books that I have for my various reading devices. My Library (over 2500 e-books/Docs) consists of a Folder Tree that may have as many as 4 levels of folders.( eg: /SD-Main Library/Authors/author name/their e-books as well as other folders under the /SD-Main Library such as /Manuals/sub folders/sub folder etc.).
This system made it easy for me to maintain/organize my "Library" on my PC and replicate it over multple devices.
When I applied this format to an 8 Gig Micro SDHC card and inserted it into the K-T I started running into problems. The response time became very sluggish during certain actions such as taking 2 minutes to go to the Home menu after pressing "Home" from within a book. When in Library mode I could open an e-book and return to the "Library" in a reasonable amount of time but if I pressed "Home" instead it would take approx. 2 minutes to return to the Home menu.
If I removed my external sdhc card the response was better but returned on re-inserting the sdhc card. Response just got worst over time.
I am not new to e-readers and the various apps for PC/Android.
All my devices have vendor supplied updates (no hacks).
So I reset the device back to factory - re-applied the new FW update on initialization - sync'ed to our web account but stilled had the same problem after inserting the card.
So I swapped my e-books over from the 8 gig (Class 4) card to a 16g Class 10 card I had for my camera. I figured that using a high speed Micro-SDHC card should give me the best response. The sluggishness did not go away.
Then I remember about an issue with one of my e-readers that involved too many nested folders. I adjusted my Library of e-books to one folder for each grouping or category and placed these in the root of a 8 gig Class 4 Micro SDHC and my problem was resolved.
Now I have my 2500+ e-books/docs on my reader and my response time is fantastic ( within 2-4 seconds depending on the action - page turns are instant). I know that it would probably be better with the Class 10 card but that has gone back into my Digi-camera.
Moral of the story - avoid too many nested folders or as others would say - KISS "Keep It Simple Stupid"
Looking forward to further FW update improvments.
Hope this helps other avoid this pitfall.
John