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Bob Russell · 09-26-2006, 01:32 PM

Full booting time (like a reset) was a a minute or two. I think Nathan's article had a figure.

But it doesn't look like you hardly ever need to do a full boot. Almost always (like when you turn the reader off, or it goes to sleep), you come back to your page in less than 5 second. That's very very good news!

What does take a little bit of time is when you put in a memory card with lots of books on it, or if you open a book for the first time. That might also take a minute or two for it to prepare the pages. But that's only when you first open a book that was loaded directly on the memory card, as opposed to loading from the desktop software. If you use the desktop software, it preprocesses the book on the more powerful desktop PC so it's no big deal.

09-26-2006, 01:32 PM	#16
Bob Russell Recovering Gadget Addict Posts: 5,381 Karma: 676161 Join Date: May 2004 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Device: iPad	Full booting time (like a reset) was a a minute or two. I think Nathan's article had a figure. But it doesn't look like you hardly ever need to do a full boot. Almost always (like when you turn the reader off, or it goes to sleep), you come back to your page in less than 5 second. That's very very good news! What does take a little bit of time is when you put in a memory card with lots of books on it, or if you open a book for the first time. That might also take a minute or two for it to prepare the pages. But that's only when you first open a book that was loaded directly on the memory card, as opposed to loading from the desktop software. If you use the desktop software, it preprocesses the book on the more powerful desktop PC so it's no big deal.