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Originally Posted by Brianrh
I have a Sony PRS300 and a Kobo Touch and to load or change books seems to take so long, especially on longer books. I have kept the number of books stored on the device down to about forty and keep them in the main memory. Books of over 1000 pages can take ages into minutes for the Sony.
Is this normal for ebook readers? I thought they had microprocessors as powerful as mobile phone ones so why should they be any slower?
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The Kobo Touch has a Cortex A8 800MHz CPU, which is just a little bit slower than a Samsung Nexus S. Aside from the Kindle Fire/Nook Tablet, that's the fastest CPU I've seen on ebook readers. If you're having issues opening a file on the Kobo (3 minutes sounds abnormal), it's possible that there might be some corruption or weirdness going on. Try to re-download the epub or do an epub-to-epub conversion via Calibre.
Older readers have much worse CPU. The Kindle 3g/Wi-Fi circa 2010 models sport a Freescale i.MX35 (ARM1136JF-S core, 532MHz) CPU. That's around 11% slower than my LG Thrive (AT&T version of the Optimus One) and the Thrive already crashes on Mantano Reader quite frequently particularly when there's a large number of books in the library.
Readers aren't built to be number-crunching powerhouses. They tend to have CPU and RAM that's just good enough for the task. According to the MR Wiki, the PRS-300 has a Freescale i.MXL MC9328MXLVP20 (ARM920T core, 200MHz) CPU. Yes, it's going to be slow.