[Mike L]

I have installed Calibre (ver 0.9.16) on an HP Envy tablet running Windows 8.

Most of the time, it works perfectly. No surprises there. However, I am having a lot of difficulty with the Fetch News feature. In short, it is taking a huge amount of time to fetch even quite small downloads.

For example, I have been trying to download The Economist, which is less than 4 MB. The first time I tried, it took ten minutes to get 4%, after which it seemed to get stuck. The next time I tried, it took an hour to get to 20%, at which point I cancelled. I've had similar experiences with other sources.

By contrast, The Economist typically takes 3 - 4 minutes to download on my Thinkpad laptop or on my HP desktop machine, both of which run under Windows XP. This is on the same network and with the same Internet connection as the tablet.

I don't have any problem downloading files in other applications on the tablet. For example, I often fetch files from Radio Downloader, and this is just as quick on the tablet as on my other machines.

Does anyone know if there are any specific issues with fetching news in Calibre under Windows 8? Or any Calibre settings that might be affecting performance?

Thanks in advance.

Mike