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Originally Posted by Peter Sorotokin
Your book is slow because the chapters are not splitted into separate flows. While technically it does not violate the spec (and it passes epubcheck), it places very high processing burden on the reading system. It will only be worse on the handhelds, which might not even be able to load the whole book because of the memory/CPU constraints.
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Am I missing something about processing the EPUB format? If there is a page break at the start of each chapter (say), why does it matter whether chapters are in separate flows or not. Even if they are in one flow, it should then still be ok to process each chapter separately (perhaps with a rescan to capture CSS info or other metadata). If this is not the case, that would seem to be a serious deficiency in the format.