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Old 07-28-2011, 07:49 PM   #40
JD Gumby
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Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man View Post
Odd. I notice no difference in terms of speed and performance between a short novel like The Man Who Knew Too Much (139 pages) and a monster like War and Peace (1700+ pages). Each loads from the home page in about two-seconds, and page turn speed is identical near as I can tell. This is using freely available DRM free epubs.
Might be that the larger books he's reading have had their chapters split up into individual files that need to be loaded (a real pain when you're using footnotes, by the way, as I've found with the Kobo version of Noam Chomksy's ''Hegemony or Survival''). Greatly reduces performance.
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