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ottdmk · 02-05-2014, 04:54 PM

So, I got my Aura HD last night (side note: Kudos to Future Shop and Canada Post. Ordered on Sunday, in my hands Tuesday via no-extra-charge shipping? Excellent!) and loaded my Shadowrun PDFs onto my new Kingston 8GB Class 4 SDHC card.

I'm thinking I may have picked the wrong card. I figured for ebooks, Class 4 would work fine. (I also remember seeing somewhere around here that Class 4 might work better in ereaders then Class 10.) But the Shadowrun 5th Ed Handbook is displayed so slowly.

Page turns take seconds (usually 3-10). Now, once the page is displayed, things are *fast*. Zoom is pretty much instant. And the display is, of course, beautiful. But the page turns are painful.

I put the Exalted 5th Ed PDF in main memory to compare. The Exalted PDF is larger, by almost 50%. Much faster page turns.

I suppose the next test will be to take the Shadowrun book off the SD card and put it in main memory to compare...

02-05-2014, 04:54 PM	#1
ottdmk Wizard Posts: 1,221 Karma: 3804496 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Device: Kobo Libra 2, Lenovo Tab M10 FHD Plus, Lenovo Tab M9	Odd PDF performance So, I got my Aura HD last night (side note: Kudos to Future Shop and Canada Post. Ordered on Sunday, in my hands Tuesday via no-extra-charge shipping? Excellent!) and loaded my Shadowrun PDFs onto my new Kingston 8GB Class 4 SDHC card. I'm thinking I may have picked the wrong card. I figured for ebooks, Class 4 would work fine. (I also remember seeing somewhere around here that Class 4 might work better in ereaders then Class 10.) But the Shadowrun 5th Ed Handbook is displayed so slowly. Page turns take seconds (usually 3-10). Now, once the page is displayed, things are fast. Zoom is pretty much instant. And the display is, of course, beautiful. But the page turns are painful. I put the Exalted 5th Ed PDF in main memory to compare. The Exalted PDF is larger, by almost 50%. Much faster page turns. I suppose the next test will be to take the Shadowrun book off the SD card and put it in main memory to compare...