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Originally Posted by John F
You are understating things.
When the primary function of a reading device (reading) is adversely affected (much slower page turns), that is a major problem. There are so many small things we all continue to deal with, but something as simple as a page turn should be right every release. If they can't get it right, allow the user some supported way to revert.
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The page turn issue does not seem to affect all users. I've reverted my KT to various firmware versions and the page turns do vary -- 1.9.9 was the worst, 1.9.14 was better, 1.9.17 was the fastest with 2.0.2 falling between 1.9.14 and 1.9.17. I used a video camera for the testing and just counted the frames from when I triggered the page turn to when the new page was completed. I must say that detecting a page turn tap/swipe is much improved since the first generation of firmware and trading a slightly slower page turn for not having to tap the screen a couple of time and likely triggering multiple page turns is a decent tradeoff IMNSHO.
My page turn experience is likely affected by 90% of the EPUB ebooks on my KT have been run through Sigil so the chapters are split correctly, a consistent page style has been applied, covers are centered and configured to fit the page, embedded fonts have been cleaned up, etc. I did find that a several ebooks where the book was stored in 3 or fewer files did have slower page turns which breaking the chapters up properly seems to have corrected.