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Originally Posted by soulfuldog
No I'd agree with HarryT here. Its been a long standing 'complaint' that page turns on various Kobo models are a touch slower. I remember reading quite a few comments particularly from Sony users switching to Kobo. Just how much of an issue it is seems debatable, but then you can say that for any of the various issues that affect ereaders. Personally, I'd have more of a problem with the continual firmware tweaks that fix some issues, but ignore or introduce others. I also don't like the fact that using kepubs seems to help with page turns as I don't want to have to use another format, but here are Amazon doing the same thing with their font improvements.  |
I'm pretty sure that this is due to terrible eink drivers and not processing power constraints for hyphenation. The German brand tolino has had hyphenation since the beginning (a bit inaccurate but greatly improved, never worse than Kobo) and they have since improved page turns and are on par with Kindle.
Bottom line: hyphenation isn’t really an awfully intense processing task, and if it is in your case, you’re doing it wrong (and I think Amazon’s solution is really inelegant)...