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With 1.4 I noticed that Kobo formatted books were much faster for page turns than ePub, I'm guessing this is because of the way the device had to load the book (perhaps with the Kobo format it would only load a single chapter while with ePub it has to the almost the whole thing). With ePub books I always had to press the page flip button when I started the 3rd last line, with Kobo format I'd press the flip button somewhere during the 2nd last line. With 1.8 I've only read kepubs (newer Kobo format) and I press the flip button during the last line.
I also realized that when I performed my comparison between the Kobo Wifi and my Original Kobo I was comparing ePub against a kepub so I don't know what difference exists between them. I've got a Kobo Wifi on order now so hopefully I'll be able to report on that soon.
The downside to the new firmware is that with kepubs the chapter changes appear slower than they used to be. For proper books I think this would work fine but I have one book which is a set of Sunday editorial columns reprinted so each chapter is about 5-8 pages, with something like that it could be a bit more frustrating.
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