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Waldo3 · 03-21-2013, 12:35 PM

As followup to the file size / crash issue with NYT subscription version, I changed to recursions=0 and tested for a few days. File size is much reduced to < 10GB weekday and Sunday. However page turning and menu navigation are still very slow. The Kindle Keyboard eventually crashed this Tues and Wed even though file size was in the 6-7 MB range. The problem is not quite as bad on the Paperwhite - no crashes occur, but navigation does not work correctly on the large format TOC menu.

It seems that concatenated articles were not the problem. The behavior is similar to issues I've seen in the past with the Sunday NYT subscription edition which gets very big. What has changed recently is the updated recipe which adds daily most viewed, tech sections, etc. For example, the Wed 3/20 edition contained 17 sections and 227 total articles. Of these about half are in the recently added sections. The common issue with the earlier Sunday problems seems to be the total number of sections / articles.

Has anyone else has seen these issues with the Kindle / MOBI NYT subscription version? Or possibly other MOBI periodical-format publications? It seems that maybe the Kindle firmware itself chokes when sections / articles go over 100-200+ I regularly download over a dozen Kindle pubs in MOBI periodical format and never have problems otherwise.

03-21-2013, 12:35 PM	#7
Waldo3 Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Mar 2013 Device: Kindle	As followup to the file size / crash issue with NYT subscription version, I changed to recursions=0 and tested for a few days. File size is much reduced to < 10GB weekday and Sunday. However page turning and menu navigation are still very slow. The Kindle Keyboard eventually crashed this Tues and Wed even though file size was in the 6-7 MB range. The problem is not quite as bad on the Paperwhite - no crashes occur, but navigation does not work correctly on the large format TOC menu. It seems that concatenated articles were not the problem. The behavior is similar to issues I've seen in the past with the Sunday NYT subscription edition which gets very big. What has changed recently is the updated recipe which adds daily most viewed, tech sections, etc. For example, the Wed 3/20 edition contained 17 sections and 227 total articles. Of these about half are in the recently added sections. The common issue with the earlier Sunday problems seems to be the total number of sections / articles. Has anyone else has seen these issues with the Kindle / MOBI NYT subscription version? Or possibly other MOBI periodical-format publications? It seems that maybe the Kindle firmware itself chokes when sections / articles go over 100-200+ I regularly download over a dozen Kindle pubs in MOBI periodical format and never have problems otherwise.