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Old 11-22-2007, 11:04 AM   #17
msundman
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Device: FBReader on Android
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Originally Posted by tompe View Post
I did not like to wait 20 seconds so I do not use auto shut off. Instant access is nice and much better than the Kindles 4 second wait. The battery lasts 5 days when it is on all the time.
I find 22 seconds utterly unacceptable. I often read only one or two pages (e.g. in the bathroom, in an elevator, etc.) so my whole reading session might be only half a minute. If I have to spend 22s of that just waiting for the device to wake up I wouldn't use it and under no circumstances would I call it fast.

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How do you get to an upper limit of 200ms?
Umm.. that's what I think is the longest delay that I would dream of calling "fast".

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I tried to press the page turning button as fast as possible 10 times and the page turning speed is around 1.5 seconds.
It's really easy to measure the speed by making a video:


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But this page turning speed does not disturb the reading experience at all.
I find the 133 ms delay of QReader on my E61 to be almost, but not quite, disturbing my reading experience.

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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
When you read a paper book, can you really turn the page in 1/5th sec?
No, it takes about 800ms for me to turn a page on a book. However, when I turn a real page I'm the one doing the page-turning, which means I'm never waiting for anything else. The same goes for other things, too. E.g., when I'm climbing a ladder I'm not bored, but if I'm in an elevator that's as slow as me climbing a ladder I find it extremely slow.

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The page turn on the Gen3 is fact enough to be totally unnoticeable.
Uh.. The 133 ms page turn of my QReader is very noticeable.
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