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Originally Posted by NullNix
That's not really an explanation, given that sideloaded stuff lands in collections in seconds (even if the collection is big it "only" has to chew for twenty seconds or so). It's only this buggy-as-hell cloud collection stuff that exhibits all these disastrous failure modes.
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On initial run, the Kindle downloads a list of all ebooks along with cover thumbnails. Unless you don't have a lot of books, this process by itself takes a long time for the Kindle to finish. Meanwhile, this is something that's very trivial on smartphones and tablets.
From what I can tell, the Kindle handles these tasks in stages with collections syncing being last priority (annoying, I know). Exacerbating the issue, these all seem to run at low-level background task priority. Would be nice if performance and library management improves. Yes, part of that is definitely due to software. However, faster CPU, more RAM and faster storage would help (but sadly, likely at the expense of battery life).
As it is, I only buy jailbreakable Kindles and use LibrarianSync for collections.