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Originally Posted by ficbot
I finally deleted Stanza last night. It is just sloooooow as anything. It took 25 secodns for a book to load, and there was no way to just go to the menu and stop it from loading.
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Sorry, Stanza! Work out the bugs and run a little smoother, and we'll talk.
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I run Stanza on my iPod Touch 32Gb (not the new one), and books seem to take on average maybe 5 to 10 seconds to load the first time (they seem to have to uncompress), and then 1 to 2 seconds after that. And though I had crashes on a couple of specific books initially, I don't get that anymore. The books aren't tiny either - I've just retried it with Clive James's
Cultural Amnesia,
The Complete Works of Plato,
Harvard Classics, Tolstoy's
War and Peace, the
King James Version Bible (one minute! to open the first time - one second after that). For what it's worth, all books I've sent from my iMac to the iPod have been mobi-format files, almost all of them from Mobileread (I don't post the above titles for any "bragging" rights - I've read none of the listed titles other than
Cultural Amnesia...I just have a whole lot of stuff on there I
hope to read one day.
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I'm not disagreeing with your decision or opinion, and rejecting the software is exactly what I'd do if I was having those repeated problems with it, but I don't seem to experience the same timeframes (other than on first opening) nor the bugs to be able to second your final sentence. It runs a treat for me.
Cheers,
Marc