Clara Clara HD Expanded Memory Response Time for Large Library

[Incanus]

Originally Posted by DNSB

One thing to keep in mind is that my eInk devices are used basically for epub fiction. While I will use them for PDFs in an emergency, my iPad Pro or my laptop are my goto devices for PDFs of which most are tech manuals.

Ditto, I mostly use tablets to read PDFs and PDF fiction is rather the exception in my library

[INCANUS]

[doki43]

Otaku2255, you never updated this thread! Did you notice a speed up improvement after upgrading the SD?

[Barruel]

Originally Posted by davidfor

There are no issue with using directories. In calibre, I use the template:

{library}/{author_sort}/{title} - {authors}

Which uses a directory for each of my calibre libraries and then a subdirectory for each author. And each book uses the title and author for the file name. The library name is there simply to reduce the number of directories in the root.

With the amount of books the OP has in the device, DB size is gonna be a problem, because for each kepub the db stores several entries. If the title and author are in each of them, you are facing a several GB DB size. With epub it won't be as bad, but it will still be big.

I also have a large microSD card and have the Kobo driver configured with the template

Books/{author_sort:shorten(1,,0)}{title:shorten(1,,0)}/{id}

This puts every book under /Books and a directory named after the first letter of the book and the title. I did that because I didn't want a folder with thousands of files. The actual kepub file is named after its ID in Calibre DB.

This slims DB a lot, and even with that it is not slim. It has a downside, which is that is that you won't be able to match the kepub file with the book just by looking at the file name and you'll depend on Calibre to manage the books is the device.