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Old 05-12-2009, 03:23 PM   #1
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Sony PRS-505 hangs before reading epub

My UK Sony PRS-505 hangs for about 30secs to 1min when I try to open epub files generated with calibre. They were converted from .txt and .rtf files. Is this a known problem? Is there a fix?

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Old 05-12-2009, 03:30 PM   #2
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Every time? Or just the first time you open a new book? Because I think it is normal to take a bit longer the first time.
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Old 05-12-2009, 03:33 PM   #3
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Every time? Or just the first time you open a new book? Because I think it is normal to take a bit longer the first time.
Yep - I think DixieGal's right. First time you open a book it does some kind of pagination thing I think that takes 30 seconds or so. If you then close and re-open that book it's almost immediate.

Is that what you're finding?
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Old 05-12-2009, 06:14 PM   #4
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It hangs the first time for approx 30secs to 1min, then it's quick if I just go to that books menu and into the book again, but if I go back to the main menu of book titles and re-load the book the same thing happens, it hangs for 30sec to 1min. Not a major problem really, but if there was a way stop it happening every time I read the same book it would be good to know.
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Old 05-12-2009, 07:10 PM   #5
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Are any of these ePub legal to post here so someone else can try it out?
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Old 05-12-2009, 07:29 PM   #6
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Unfortunately they're all post 1923. Some of the Hornblower novels, and two Patricia Highsmith.

Actually it's v.late here right now, but I could repeat the process tomorrow on something out of copyright and post it in the morning.

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Old 05-12-2009, 07:46 PM   #7
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Sounds like chapter detection went wrong and the file got a too long fragment.
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Old 05-12-2009, 09:44 PM   #8
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Could be any number of things causing the slowdown, would be good to have a sample showing the problem.

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Old 05-13-2009, 06:15 AM   #9
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Hmmm, I've tried it with some Gutenberg .txt files and they all seem to work ok. Can't seem to replicate the problem with them.
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But the .rtf file I have of "Hornblower and the Hotspur" takes 3mins 55secs to convert to epub (a long time compared to other conversions) and has this hanging probelm on the PRS-505 when I try to open it.
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Would it be helpful and legal to post a small extract of the file?

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Old 05-13-2009, 11:42 AM   #12
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in that case it's likely just markup complexity. try converting the rtf to MOBI and then the MOBI to epub
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Old 05-13-2009, 12:29 PM   #13
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Will do that, thanks for the tip.
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Old 05-13-2009, 03:44 PM   #14
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Solved! Thanks for that Kovid, great piece of software, many thanks for writing it.
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