Hi Missy,
It does not hurt to remove and/or change SD cards in the Book Sense while it
is powered up. In fact, when you do change a card while the Book Sense is
turned on, it does do a check of what is on the card. That is why you will
hear the "ding dong" doorbell sound as you insert a different card into the
unit.
It is, however, a good policy to close any files that are open before you
remove a card, whether it be on the Book Sense or the computer. I have been
in the computer business since 1978 and can tell you that, after XP arrived
on the scene, I have never had any trouble with an external drive or memory
card as long as I remember to close any files that are open on the drive or
memory device that I want to remove from the computer. With all files
properly closed, I have never had a corruption or any other problems with
them when simply removed from the SD card slot or USB port.
I use several other MP3 players that have SD card slots and am always
swapping cards in them with the power on with no problems.
I do agree though, that the Book Sense should have enough "sense" to check
the card that is in the unit each time it is turned on to make sure of what
it is looking at! It may add a few seconds to the boot up time, but it would
be worth it.
Rod
----- Original Message -----
From: "Missy Hoppe" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 5:04 AM
Subject: [GW-Booksense] a rather humorous booksense discovery: possibly a
bug
Hi, all. I've discovered something slightly humorous about the booksense,
but it's almost certainly a bug of some sort, and depending on the user, it
could actually lead to some confusion.
I have 2 32 gb sd cards: 1 for fantasy and/or childrens books, and the other
for horror, mystery, etc. I am currently listening to some books on the
horror/mystery card, but briefly needed to find a quote from a book on the
fantasy card. I've always thought it was safest to switch cards with the
device turned off. Kind of like safely remove hardware when I use my card
reader in windows for transferring files.
Anyway, I switched cards, and when booksense powered up, it still thought it
was reading "U is for Undertoe," the book on the book from the card which
was no longer present. Likewise, when I switched back to the card which I
was currently reading from and powered back up, it thought that it was still
in the Chronicles of Narnia.
I guess I'm saying all this to ask if I'm supposed to go against all logic
and switch cards while the booksense is powered on, or if in a future
firmware release, a feature can be added where booksense actually takes a
second to scan the card and determine which one it is. I realize that it may
be too much to ask for it to remember where you are on 2 separate cards, but
it should at least not tell you that you're in a book that isn't even on the
card that's currently inserted.
I'm not complaining about this per say. In my case, I only have the 2 cards,
and its fairly easy to keep them straight, but I think that this little
glitch could lead to massive confusion if people have multiple sd cards, and
I can't imagine it would be that difficult to have Booksense check the card
before announcing what the current file is.
I hope this makes a little sense. If you need me to try to explain it
better, I'll certainly give it a try.
Thank you very much for your time, and I hope that everyone is having a
great day!
Missy
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