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Originally Posted by Rizla
What speeds are other people getting? Please state what you are comparing it to. Perhaps the problem is not common to all Glo HDs?
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Here's what I've noticed about the page turns on the Glo HD, but I believe it's more related to firmware 3.15.0 and not a problem with the Glo HD.
When the reader has been sitting a few minutes (as in just enough time after reading the page), there's a slight pause when you turn the page which seems like the reader has to be first "woken up" and then responds to the page turn request. Repeatedly turn pages at that point and you'll see there is no such delay, the pages flip as they should and as quickly as other readers. This same behavior happens on my Kobo Glo with 3.15.0 installed, but it does not happen on the Glo still with 3.12.1. I should add that this same delay on "waking" happens with both epubs and kepubs for me.
I'm going to assume that this is something that can and will be fixed in the next firmware, because it is somewhat annoying.
Comparing Kobo page turns in general to the PW2, the PW2 seems
slightly faster, but not enough to give it a preference while reading at all. The PW2 also does this fade out/fade in between the previous and next pages and is very noticeable, which the Kobo does not do, the Kobo gives a clean page transition. That wouldn't be a deal breaker though (if I didn't dislike so much else about the PW2 at least). While it is somewhat distracting to me when changing pages on the PW2, it's certainly no worse than when turning pages while reading a physical book. But I much prefer the clean transition of pages that the Kobo does.
But as I said hopefully this will be fixed in future firmware updates.
As far as Kobo Nickel goes, I agree it's a truly bad bad font to use. I can't imagine anyone liking it and have no idea what they thinking when they designed it. I think they have people who just look at a screen and think "oooh, that's pretty!" without actually taking the time to actually read through the pages using that font.