12-30-2010, 05:21 PM | #16 |
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My husband and I both have the wifi model with the latest firmware (we gave our original Kobos to our 8 year old twin daughters, so we do have those as well) and page turns are pretty zippy on the wifi. It's not instantaneous, but it's less than one second. FWIW, I don't use the Kobo desktop to sync my ebooks. I download to ADE and either sideload through that program or Calibre.
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12-30-2010, 05:28 PM | #17 |
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Page turns on my original Kobo became truly long..several seconds...after I upgraded the firmware to 1.8. I did a factory reset and reloaded my books and page turns are now back to where they were before, it seems.
When reading on the Kobo I do get into the habit of clicking a couple of lines before I reach the end. I have to recalibrate my mind when I switch to the Kindle, which has virtually instanteous page turns. |
01-02-2011, 09:10 AM | #18 |
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I use the original Kobo with the latest upgrade to the firmware. Page turns are really fast (less than 1 sec).
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01-02-2011, 07:47 PM | #19 |
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The new wifi is faster than the original, but come on!!! how long does it take to turn pages in a pbook.....a lot longer and your arm gets tired
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01-02-2011, 07:51 PM | #20 |
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01-02-2011, 08:42 PM | #21 |
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01-05-2011, 01:30 PM | #24 |
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The Kobo 1 is limited by the hardware. Back when I had one it was painfully slow but manageable for books. You just pressed the button a few words ahead. With the Kobo Wifi the page turns are much faster, but again due to hardware advancements.
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01-07-2011, 01:51 PM | #26 |
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01-07-2011, 02:04 PM | #27 |
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This all sounds really weird, like there's no consensus on how the kobo behaves: Kobo1 was slow, then got faster with 1.8 - Kobo1 was fine, then 1.8 screwed it up - Kobo2 takes three seconds to flip page - Kobo2 flips page in under one second...
So, windows, I don't think you're the only one who's bothered by the slow page turns- there are others who've mentioned it before- but not everyone with the same kobo and firmware as yours has that issue. Wonder what's going on. |
01-20-2011, 01:18 AM | #28 |
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Kobo is certainly significantly slower compared to other major ebook readers.
(I cannot turn more than 8 pages in 10 second on my Kobo wifi.) This speed is fine for reading novels, but is not for reading technical articles or manga. I hope Kobo patches this issue. Last edited by Taesoo Kwon; 01-20-2011 at 01:21 AM. |
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01-20-2011, 09:41 PM | #30 | |
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So the fix is simple. Cache both previous and next page as a background task when the current page has been loaded for a few seconds (this means the page's contents are being read). |
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