I have many epubs that use lots of images and do not have a problem viewing that epub in Sigil's Preview while simultaneously editing the xhtml in CodeView. So you will need to specify the number and size of the images, the number and size of the individual xhtml files that make up the epub, etc. And how many images used per xhtml file, etc.
One easy way to do this is to unzip the epub and do a dir or ls -l to show files sizes in the Text and Images directories.
Alternatively, you can use a scramble epub utility to scramble the text itself but preserve the links. Or pick just one typical chapter (.xhtml file) of your epub, deleting the remaining chapters and post it.
We can then duplicate that sample chapter and images to create a bigger epub to see if your performance concerns can be replicated.
Are you swiching back and forth to BookView from CodeView or are you editing in Codeview while using the Preview window to show you as you edit?
We need more info here before we can help.
KevinH
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