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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
a fine tip
but here's the weird thing: it wasn't turning pages slowly because it was downloading each page each time anew. It is a weird ebook where you can read either the scanned pages or the "conversion". It turns out the conversion seems to be done on-the-fly, everytime you reach some pages. That's the only explanation I seem to find... reading the original scanned pages is fast, but there's no font resizing and the conversion takes 1 second or 2 per page...
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One of the charms of Google Play books is the ability, with some books, to switch between 'Flowing Text' ("ePub") and 'Original Page'/'Scanned Pages' ("PDF").
But the behavior is completely different on iOS and Android.
For one thing the setting is in 'Aa' options on iOS and in the 'triple bar' menu on Android. and the name of the option is different (as noted above).
With the iOS app, the entire content is downloaded, by default only 'Flowing Text'. When going page by page, there's no significant delay, except when jumping to a new chapter via the TOC. Once you select 'Scanned Pages' the download icon will spin around for a minute or so, and you can jump anywhere in the book without delay, and offline.
In the Android app, the entire content is not downloaded except when the book is 'pinned'. But even then, you cannot do much offline reading in 'Original Page' mode: the pages download on demand over the network, with a delay every few pages.