Hi everybody!
And thank you all for this useful board :)
I wanted to share this trick with you, that I'm not the first one to find out but anyway...
The book indexing on the kindle refer to the process of registering words of each book on the device in database to be used by the search function. You need this if you intend to search for words in your books, be it from the home screen search box of from inside a book. This process consume quite a lot of CPU and battery. It happens each time you load new books on the device, and refresh every 6 months. If you put a lot of books at once, you can expect two different things:
- With an older version of the software, the device may freeze or become difficult to use until indexing is done
- With newer versions of the software, indexing process is more soft but take longer
In both cases you end up with you battery going down quicker than usual. Also indexing datas take a bit of space (like 10Mb for 100 books).
After loading the kindle with a lot of books, some peoples let it plug on the computer until indexing is finish. You'll have to eject the device in your operating system to make it quit the usb mode and go back to normal mode. This way the software can go on with indexing without trying to save energy (for newer versions). I think it can takes as long as few days if you have a lot of books. You can check how much stay to be indexed: search for a word that won't be found, like "tttt", and look for result in books. It will tell you if some books are still to be indexed.
Anyway you may want to skip this step and go with you e-reader without loosing energy for this function. Or maybe you don't care about this search stuff and just want to disable it for good.
The simple solution is to plug your device on a computer and move the directory "system/Search Indexes" somewhere else or delete it. This directory contain the search indexes datas, as you can guess. If you put it back later search function and indexing will be back. Note that the device doesn't loose the record of which book have been indexed and which have not, which sound strange to me but anyway... Without this directory it won't feed index anymore.
I guess most of users here don't need this trick because they have another option on jailbreaked device; but maybe someone will reach this post from a search engine and find it useful.
Hope this help.
And thank you all for this useful board :)
I wanted to share this trick with you, that I'm not the first one to find out but anyway...
The book indexing on the kindle refer to the process of registering words of each book on the device in database to be used by the search function. You need this if you intend to search for words in your books, be it from the home screen search box of from inside a book. This process consume quite a lot of CPU and battery. It happens each time you load new books on the device, and refresh every 6 months. If you put a lot of books at once, you can expect two different things:
- With an older version of the software, the device may freeze or become difficult to use until indexing is done
- With newer versions of the software, indexing process is more soft but take longer
In both cases you end up with you battery going down quicker than usual. Also indexing datas take a bit of space (like 10Mb for 100 books).
After loading the kindle with a lot of books, some peoples let it plug on the computer until indexing is finish. You'll have to eject the device in your operating system to make it quit the usb mode and go back to normal mode. This way the software can go on with indexing without trying to save energy (for newer versions). I think it can takes as long as few days if you have a lot of books. You can check how much stay to be indexed: search for a word that won't be found, like "tttt", and look for result in books. It will tell you if some books are still to be indexed.
Anyway you may want to skip this step and go with you e-reader without loosing energy for this function. Or maybe you don't care about this search stuff and just want to disable it for good.
The simple solution is to plug your device on a computer and move the directory "system/Search Indexes" somewhere else or delete it. This directory contain the search indexes datas, as you can guess. If you put it back later search function and indexing will be back. Note that the device doesn't loose the record of which book have been indexed and which have not, which sound strange to me but anyway... Without this directory it won't feed index anymore.
I guess most of users here don't need this trick because they have another option on jailbreaked device; but maybe someone will reach this post from a search engine and find it useful.
Hope this help.