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Originally Posted by thp1017
As much as I'd also love to see a super quick startup time, some times x, y, and z all need to happen, and there may not be a way to speed it up. I like your suggestion of showing the last page viewed quickly while things are booting up, and/or the previously made suggestion of NOT opening the "I'm reading" list on bootup, as that also slows things down.
With respect to the startup process, I wonder if there are some things that could be remove from the boot-up process, in favor of requiring us to *manually* do it. Right now, it seems that every bootup the software compares the books on 'disk' with whats listed in the sql database, and updates it as needed, which has to take a not insubstantial amount of time. I certainly wouldn't mind removing this from the bootup process, and then having something in the menu somewhere to "search for new content" - that makes more sense to me than the current model anyway, but..... the "average" user might have issues with this, I guess, and complain that their books aren't showing up when they copy the files over (oh, wait, or does the "average" user just use the crappy Borders or ADE software?)  |
I would quite happy if the Kobo only rebuilt the library after USB disconnection. However, this wouldn't account for people who, for example, swap out content on an SD card while the Kobo is off.
Hmm, I suppose a manual "check for new content" option would work, but many users would likely complain that they added new content and it wasn't detected. People do expect that sort of this to be automatic.
Kobo needs to find a balance between ease of use (automatic detection) and speed (quick boot). I like the idea of quickly booting to the last read page and THEN updating the library in the background. This would allow user to continue reading in the shortest amount of time, and allow the Kobo to do the heavy lifting while the user is reading.