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Originally Posted by booklover6
Have you tried going down to two or three pages of collections, and then restarting?
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Well yes and of course with 2 or three collections it is perhaps as fast as other readers with 1000 collections.
On the Sonys or kindles for example, the number of collections or the number of books in the collections makes no appreciable difference. I don't have a lot of kindle experience except for managing my mothers, but it seems pretty fast.
But having two or three collections is like having to or three books on the reader. Fine for many but not for me.
When I got my first kobo, a mini, I was dismayed to find that with around 500 books and maybe 100 collections it could take 40+ seconds to open the collections. This is compounded by the fact that to back of a collection or stat over and select a different collection takes the same time and if you are a person who maybe likes to browse around a little sometimes this is pretty tedious. And if you hit the screen accidentally during the long wait, then a collection opens and you are back at square one.
I have spent many hours with the mini and the Aura HD and the mini trying different things. Every new firmware last year I would take another crack at it. Some improvement, such as shaving 6 seconds off of 80 seconds occurred.
I know I only start a new book 5 or 6 times a week so spending 10 minutes to an hour to do it isn't the end of the world, just I find it tedious.
If this was my only ereader I would chose the next book in calibre or make up a monthly list and only have those books on the reader before going to bed, where I do most of my reading, and use the search as others advocate but I actually enjoy the browsing process on occasion and having a lot of books available is one of life's little luxuries for me.
I do use the Kobo when my mother visits for a few days and has left her kindle behind as she is 88 and I couldn't inflict the Kobo on her, but that is about it.
Helen