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--- oldtech:calibre:decrapifyandsend [2025/05/15 15:44] – ifixcoinops
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-====== Decrapify and Send ======
+.====== Decrapify and Send ======
 It's finally time to plug the ereader into the computer!
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 Now that we're done with the initial setup, the process for getting and reading ebooks goes like this:
   - Download a book to your computer's hard drive;
-  - Bring the book into Calibre;
+  - Bring the book into Calibre;e
   - Use Calibre to decrapify the book;
   - Send the decrapified book to your ereader and find a comfy chair.
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 ===== Notes on SD card corruption =====
-I've had a couple of SD cards get wonky and quit accepting or reading new books.  I'm still narrowing down what, exactly, causes this to happen, but I can quite reliably make it happen by copying either **too much data** or **too many books** to the ereader in a single operation.
+I've had a couple of SD cards get wonky and quit accepting or reading new books.  I'm still narrowing down what, exactly, causes this to happen, but I can quite reliably make it happen by copying either **too much data** or **too many books** to the ereader in a single operation.  **Update 2025-05-15:** <del>New information has been brought to light</del> old information has been dug up from a swamp of fifteen-year-old forum posts and also I've spent //far// too much time experimenting and being frustrated, see "SD card too big" below.
 === How do you know when it's happened? ===
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 === How to recover more gracefully than that ===
 Take a backup of your whole entire SD card every now and then, including the Sony Reader folder with its cache files!  If your SD card gets corrupted, format it and then restore the backup.  Then you'll only have to start from Some Time Ago, rather than All Over Again - and it's WAY faster to restore a SD card image than it is to send all those books again through that retro USB wire.
+=== Update 2025-05-15: it's the SD card ===
+Quick update on this issue: since repartitioning my 16 gig SD card down to 3.9 gigs, I've been able to send a thousand books or a hundred volumes of manga at once with no problems at all.  Granted, if I do that then the ereader will spin its circle for like an hour lol.
+Interestingly, I was able to send the same 3.8ish gigs of books that previously caused problems - it seems that on big SD cards, issues start to crop up as you //approach// four gigs, whereas an SD card with a single 3.9 gig partition can fairly reliably get filled until Calibre tells you there's no more room (leaving maybe half a meg for the cache file to expand).
+The most books I've had on at once was around 1,100.  [[https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=30849|Here's a guy]] who put over 4,000 on, followed by two forum pages of useful technical information (after six forum pages of people bitching at him about it).
 ====== What else? ======
 Part 4 of this guide is [[oldtech:calibre:manga|a special note on comics and manga]], and part 5 is a [[oldtech:calibre:bonus|bonus bit on how to get stories from web pages and turn them into .epub files]].