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Originally Posted by davidfor
Can you post a link to the book in the Kobo store?
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Here it is:
https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/bri...trated-edition
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When a kepub is opened the first time, a word count is calculated for each chapter in the book. And with the change to show a full book page count based on the rendered pages, it is probably a large book would take to long to render. In this case, I'm a little surprised the device doesn't reboot due to a hung process.
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In fact it does. I'd obviously been too impatient when restarting it manually - when left alone it did restart itself.
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I'm basing this guess on the slowness to open a book I've been reading. This is only 88K words, but, it has a single internal file with 18 chapters. When I opened it, the device would appear to hang, but would come to life after about 10 seconds.
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While trying to work out what was going on I have opened a number of other large books today. One also led to a hang and restart, but on a second attempt opened successfully. A factor the two have in common is a very large TOC, which may also be relevant. These compendiums of stories are good value, but enormous.
I have reported all this to Kobo, and have a ticket number which has been referred to the development team. It was a very long chat conversation with their support people, trying a lot of options, but coming to the conclusion that something was definitely wrong!
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It might help to turn off the footer. This might prevent the page count from being calculated for the book. It might also be necessary to turn off the progress bar as that is calculated for the full book as well.
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For the moment I've used Calibre to save a plain epub (not kepub) version and the device has opened that successfully - but crashed again once when I went back to the table of contents, increasing my suspicion that the size of the TOC may be a factor.
Thanks for your thoughts!