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Old 04-29-2008, 06:56 PM   #77
cmacnaug
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Device: Sony PRS-505
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
This is not a problem with the 505, but with how you've loaded the books onto your 505. If you use eBook Library toload the books on your 505, eBook Library paginates and puts the info on your 505 for you. But if you use another method of loading content, then the 505 cannot find the pagination info and thus it has to do it for you when you first open the book and when you change sizes. Opening the book sorts out small. So the solution is to use eBook Library to copy your books to the 505 and that problem won't happen.
Those of you that responded that I should use eBook Library are right. In the test that I ran where it took 4 minutes and 40 seconds to open War and Peace, I had forgotten that a while back I had transferred it outside of the eBook Library. I've just tried reopening it, and it only took 54 seconds! This time it didn't show the "Formatting..." message. It just appeared to be hung during that time. This makes sense because I didn't remember it taking that long back when I was reading it. Also, changing font size now only takes about 1 min 20secs, and during this time the reader also just appeared to be hung (no status message or rotating icon).

To be sure that this wasn't a problem with the formatting being done on the reader, I deleted the book and re-transferred it from the eBook Library and saw the same behavior (this time 61 seconds to open).

Anyway 54 seconds is still a long time to open a book and 1min 20secs is still a long time to change the font size. Anyway, this isn't a big issue for me anymore. The largest books that I have in the pipe are the new Einstein biography and Crime and Punishment which are both about 1500 pages with small font size. These both only take about 5-7 seconds to open which seems reasonable enough to me.

I'm be curious to hear what load times others with large books are seeing on the 505. Maybe there is something funny with my particular reader.
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