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Originally Posted by BookCat
My PW2, which currently has 616 items on it, opens books instantly. It takes no time at all. Maybe the number of books you have on your kindle is slowing it down, or it's older and has a slow processor, or whatever. I just touch the book name, and the book is open!
As for where to start looking: I have the books organised into Collections: "Cats and Other Animals" "Classics" "Detective/Mystery/Thriller" "Historical Fiction" "Horror incl Vampire" "Humour" "Island/Summer" "Sci Fi" "Writing" and intend to create more such as one for "Romance".
When looking, I decide what kind of book I'm in the mood for: something cheery? Or dramatic? Then look in Humour or Detective etc. I then choose a book from the Collection.
This is fun. At least with a responsive, fast ereader. With my old Sony prs 505 it was murder because I spent so much time watching a buffering symbol as the book formatted. A modern ereader shouldn't be so slow.
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Current Kindles (and Kobos, etc) are pretty fast - for e-ink that is. Compared to OLED/LCD-based devices though, they're still significantly slower. You can't really scroll through pages of listings on an eink reader as fast as you can on a smartphone, tablet or PC.
Also, having to open each book just to read the synopsis takes multiple taps (with accompanying screen refresh delay) and at least on the Kindle, messes up sorting by "Recent". I can skim through ~2-3 book synopsis on Calibre-PHP server in the time it takes me to view and close just one book on the Kindle. Maybe ~5+ synopsis if I'm at the end or middle of the book and would need to first open the TOC to go to the book jacket. I read a lot of in-progress fanfics so this would happen quite often if I didn't use other methods for browsing.