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Originally Posted by DaleDe
But it is only a 200 MHz processor and it would take considerable resources to do this in the background. Basically every page would have to be displayed in a buffer simultaneous to your viewing to emulate what MS Reader does and in a device where the idea is that the CPU is almost off to save battery power I suspect you wouldn't like the battery consumption it would take nor the main memory resources. It simply isn't designed for this kind of computing task.
Dale
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It certainly COULD be done - the Sony Reader does it, for example, if you load a book directly onto the device via its USB drive, rather than go via the desktop software. It doesn't attempt to do it as a background task, though; it simply goes at it "flat out" when you first open the book, or select a new font size, displaying a "busy" cursor while it does so. It's not too bad - takes about 20s for an average novel, 1 min for a real "blockbuster" like "War and Peace".