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ski_power · 12-29-2010, 10:32 PM

Ignoring the poorly worded title, I can confirm this.

I have an ultra-slow Windows Mobile phone (200MHz Processor) that's easily 4-5 years old. Using Freda and ePub brings the device to a crawl when opening relatively large books like any of the Enders' saga.
For mobi format they have an ancient-relic reader called MobiPocket reader for Windows Mobile. When I use that, the page turns are literally instantaneous (as compared to Freda after disabling the page turn animations).

My take from this is that mobi is a slightly 'bigger' format where the file sizes are comparatively larger as compared to ePub, but for weaker hardware the .Mobi runs circles around .ePub which is what Amazon might have been meaning with their statement.

Does that mean the Kindle hardware cannot keep up with .ePub? I don't know.

12-29-2010, 10:32 PM	#28
ski_power Book eater Posts: 181 Karma: 2068 Join Date: Jul 2010 Device: Kindle 3 G 3G (<-lol)	Ignoring the poorly worded title, I can confirm this. I have an ultra-slow Windows Mobile phone (200MHz Processor) that's easily 4-5 years old. Using Freda and ePub brings the device to a crawl when opening relatively large books like any of the Enders' saga. For mobi format they have an ancient-relic reader called MobiPocket reader for Windows Mobile. When I use that, the page turns are literally instantaneous (as compared to Freda after disabling the page turn animations). My take from this is that mobi is a slightly 'bigger' format where the file sizes are comparatively larger as compared to ePub, but for weaker hardware the .Mobi runs circles around .ePub which is what Amazon might have been meaning with their statement. Does that mean the Kindle hardware cannot keep up with .ePub? I don't know. Last edited by ski_power; 12-29-2010 at 10:34 PM. Reason: clean up