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Old 11-30-2013, 06:53 AM   #3
HarryT
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Originally Posted by ShellShock View Post
Plus bigger books take longer to load and are generally slower on most ereaders.
Not true. The time taken to load ePub books is independent of their overall size, since only a single "flow" is loaded into memory at any given time. A similar thing applies to Kindle books.

At the dawn of time there were readers like the Sony PRS-505 which would "paginate" a book when it was first opened, and the time taken to do that was dependent on the size of the book, but I don't know of any current reader which does anything similar.

Do you have any evidence to support your assertion that large books take longer to open?

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