Thread: Why are ebook readers so slow?
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Old 07-02-2012, 12:31 PM   #37
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Originally Posted by Edward M. Grant View Post
You're right that e-reader CPUs are chosen to be 'just fast enough', but I still don't understand why they seem so slow on an absolute level. They're basically just uncompressing a .zip file, reading the HTML it contains and formatting that for display, which seems easy enough... the Sun seemed to do it faster with a CPU running at a tenth of the speed.
Maybe you've just forgotten how slow it actually took.

I do still have a first-gen iPhone and webpage rendering on that thing takes ages compared to the iPhone 4S. Same with downloading epub files using Stanza (Stanza explodes epubs directly after downloading instead of during opening to shorten epub load times).
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