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Old 10-24-2015, 09:42 AM   #496
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
I would not expect otherwise. No (sensible) PDF reader loads the entire document into memory, so the time it takes to open a PDF should be independent of its size. What the speed will depend on is how complex the rendering of the page is, but that is of course not dependent upon the overall size of the file.
What you say is generally true for most desktop/android/ios apps. For some reason, most e-ink devices come with very sluggish PDF readers that find it difficult to handle large PDFs. For example, the i86 has two dedicated PDF readers and both are very slow to respond compared to orion viewer. In fact, because the speed of the orion viewer in page turning is almost as fast as the default EPUB reader, I've been wondering whether a 3rd party EPUB reader will outdo the default app.
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