I am experimenting with placing photos of my entire collection (ancients, mostly) on a (my wife's, actually) Nook HD reader. I quickly discovered that the included photo handling software was deficient but improved that quite a bit by downloading an app ($3.99) called Fishbowl Photo Gallery & Organizer. The idea is to be able to attend the coin show in Baltimore March 16 and refer to the photos when I have trouble remembering what I already own and what condition it is. Most shows have seen me buy a duplicate or two or a coin I thought was an upgrade which turned out to be inferior o the one I had. Paper lists work up to a point but become unwieldy when you have a lot of coins that are a bit similar. The photos look great on the Nook HD. Finding the ones I want to see depends on my system of folders used on my home PC but I expect to learn a lot with a little practice. The acid test will come when I go to Baltimore. Does anyone have experience with using a tablet for this purpose? Tips on things you have learned about the matter would be appreciated.
I see folks use ipads alot even as recently as this past long beach. I just wonder with you having such a large collection will your photos even fit on the nook? Tablets tend to have limited space.
The Nook is expandable with it's memory, it accepts I think MicroSD cards so you can fit quite a bit in there. We bought my older daughter one and I have to say it's a nice device, very good screen, I think it would be perfect for a task like this.
3000 photos of the size that fills the screen takes about 500MB. Our model of the Nook has 16GB internal and will take a 32G micro SD card making the limit over 200,000 images that size. At the rate I am buying coins, I'm in no trouble. The British Museum and medoraman might have a problem with the limits. :yes:
