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The speed of page turns and other things is going to be affected by how much time and memory is used by other things.
Features such as typeface kerning, automatic hyphenation, adjustable typeface weight and sharpness all require time and memory during the rendering process. Even if the rendering is done in advance and the results buffered, they still take extra memory which impacts on the speed of other things.
The question is: what is more important to reading? Pages that turn a fraction of a second faster, or those extra typographic features that are lacking on the Kindle?
There is a trade-off: you can do it faster, or you can do it better. I think Kobo has made the right choice.
(But of course, all the reviews will compare page turn speed while very few will mention kerning, automatic hyphenation, etc.)
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