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Originally Posted by davidfor
Strangely enough, responsiveness of the device is a very low factor in my reading experience. There is probably a minimum speed that would bug me, but, the firmware has always been better than this (excluding the short lived 4.6.9660).
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I guess the reason I'm stuck on responsiveness is that there was such a big difference, i felt, between the Sony reader I was used to, and the Kobo when I switched over two years ago. It really felt like there was a definite pause before I could start reading the next page on the Kobo. And it's not like I'm hyper sensitive or anything. For instance, page refreshes on every pages never bothered me in my first couple eReaders (also Sonys) although having said that, I'm glad page refreshes are much less frequent these days. The Kobo definitely felt sluggish enough to affect my reading experience in a way nothing else did.
But from what you say about the improvements in the Kobo firmware, my concerns about responsiveness are probably no longer justified. I'll have to revisit ePubs again at some point, just out of curiosity though because I'm very happy with KePubs.