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Old 09-20-2015, 08:34 AM   #17
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Originally Posted by Mrs_Often View Post
It differs per book. If it is a big book wil complicated chapter structure it does take a "while". I admit if no book is open and the device wakes up to the home screen it is indeed pretty instantaneous, maybe one or 1.5-2 seconds...
I have not noticed a difference based on the size or complexity of a book, but as you said, I have a different device. I am currently reading Go Set a Watchman , only about 230 pages, and it opens in less than 2 seconds from sleep, about the same as opening to the home screen if I do not have a book open. I had a Kobo WiFi, and from sleep that seemed pretty fast too. My son has the WiFi with him at college now, so I can't test the sleep start up. When I changed to the Aura I realized how slow it was to open a book or to start from a full power off. Painfully slow once your expectations have been raised...

I would bet that one of these smart programmer folks could figure out a way to report words-per-minute based on the pages read in a reading session.

Learning to read faster is a great goal, but it could also increase your lifetime expenditure on books - the faster you read, the sooner have to spend money on a new book! Thanks goodness for library e-books...
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