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Originally Posted by the.Mtn.Man
I'm not saying it doesn't need to be fixed and that I wouldn't appreciate faster page turns, but you guys are acting like your Kobos are all but useless because of it.
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As I've said, I don't have this problem, but I have experienced it with a previous reader. Yes, if it is a relaible length of time, it is possible to work around it by starting the page turn earlier, but that tends towards feeling rushed to get to the bottom before the turn happens, so that there aren't two slow page turns (one back, one forward).
There also seems to be a matter of degree - some (me and you, possibly, because you don't seem to be experiencing the same teeth-gnashing frustration
) are not badly, or at all, affected by this. Others seem to be afflicted with page turn times of several seconds. And it isn't the same as physically turning a paper page. You can (and probably do) adjust your turn rate to what is going on in whatever you are reading. I find myself with the page half-turned when it gets exciting, so that the interruption of page turning is minimised (remember a physical page turn is a more continuous process: by bending the paper or turning the book, you can see to the end even when the page is almost half turned). E-books lack this, and probably always will, and it takes just a little bit of the experience of reading away. It is much worse when you have no control over the page turn at all - it can ruin the whole experience.
I would say an e-book reader with a lag of more than a second on page turns *is* useless.