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Originally Posted by delphidb96
Exactly. And from what I've studied about the Mobi format, it ain't gonna be easy unless Mobi updates their presumptive model on what platform is used. There's tons of PDAs out there which have more memory and better memory handlers. Plus there are the Linux, Mac and Win PC families and now the e-ink devices. Sure, having rigidly-defined 'chunks' for much older PDAs and the cellphones makes sense - but even there Mobi could take a page from, say LZ compression techniques and just have a 'sliding-window' of 'working' text from within the single-file of ebook data.
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That is how it works now. The records is just an implementation detail and of course you have to decode a set of records to display the text. It is not that property that is the problem. The problem is that you have to render the whole document to get the page breaks. But that might be relatively fast. Look at TeX/LaTeX that render to get page breaks rather fast.