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Originally Posted by davidfor
The time taken to open the collections list is dependent on the number of collections and how many books are on them. Adding 200 books to a collection seems to have more affect than adding 20 empty collections. I've played with the database enough that I can't work out why it's so slow. And unfortunately, they don't cache the list. If you change the sort order, it is rebuilt from scratch.
The performance has improved with the firmware versions. But, it doesn't seem to help Helen. On my Glo I have 36 pages of collections. The first page is all over 100 books. With the firmware I am currently running, it takes 20-25 seconds. That is still to long especially considering that building the book list for 2000 books with their covers is well under 10 seconds. Helen and I have talked about this in the past, and I can't see a reason why it is so much slower for her. The Aura HD should be faster than the Glo.
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Strangely enough the Aura HD did not seem any slower than the mini with the same number of books. I've broken my mini now, which is unfortunate as it was more stable swipe-touch wise than the HD so I used it more.
My biggest problem now is having higher expectations due to even my first (and subsequent) ereader(s), now an antique in the ereader world
performing much better.
My second problem is I seem to have a dud Aura HD in that I still get double/triple page turns, backwards instead of forwards, opening on the wrong page, and have encountered pretty well every bug around. Last week I noticed that the back button after a search does nothing.
If Kobo was my first reader, perhaps I would think it was okay. Probably in fact.
Kobo has some nice features, the biggest of which is the Kobo utilities and the kobo calibre driver/interface. Just not enough nice feature to overcome the faults. (like cumbersome navigation of the collections pages for another)
I haven't totally given up and sold my Aura HD although if someone I disliked came up to me and offered my $80 for it I might. And while my mini worked better overall I won't be buying another.
Helen