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abigsmurf · 03-16-2013, 09:46 AM

Wondering if any other Glo owners have had this problem:

Basically viewing CBZ files has become pretty unreliable. It'll often freeze on a page, either taking 5-10 seconds to turn or not turning until you tap it again (at which point it turns 2 pages). Seems to get progressively worse until I got my first crash.

It's a lot of images but they're low quality and downsampled (cbz is about 50megs) and it seemed to perform as badly as one that was 200megs.

Didn't have this problem with epub formatted comics but losing the bottom 50 or so pixels to the entirely pointless page count (why can't Kobo make this optional?) is not ideal as every pixel counts for text clarity in manga.

Any advice to stop it? Is it a case of splitting up manga/comic so there's only a handful of chapters per book or is it a problem with Glos?

03-16-2013, 09:46 AM	#1
abigsmurf Enthusiast Posts: 33 Karma: 22 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: PRS-505	CBZ lag and reliability issues in Kobo Glo Wondering if any other Glo owners have had this problem: Basically viewing CBZ files has become pretty unreliable. It'll often freeze on a page, either taking 5-10 seconds to turn or not turning until you tap it again (at which point it turns 2 pages). Seems to get progressively worse until I got my first crash. It's a lot of images but they're low quality and downsampled (cbz is about 50megs) and it seemed to perform as badly as one that was 200megs. Didn't have this problem with epub formatted comics but losing the bottom 50 or so pixels to the entirely pointless page count (why can't Kobo make this optional?) is not ideal as every pixel counts for text clarity in manga. Any advice to stop it? Is it a case of splitting up manga/comic so there's only a handful of chapters per book or is it a problem with Glos?