What happened to the page turn speed of kepubs? (
Solved)
I haven't really been paying much attention to new firmwares in the past few years, I've been very happy with 4.9.11311. Likewise I haven't been paying much attention to this forum either.* Until recently: I gave 4.24.15676 a try because it has some features that I was interested in, like the header with chapter progress and the progress bar at the bottom, among others.
The first book I read with firmware 4.24.15676 drove me crazy. It was a continuous battle between self control and throw-the-device-against-the-wall frustration every time I had to 'turn' the page. Each of the 1432 page turns (or however many there were) was a gamble: some where suddenly as fast as I hoped, so i did have to read to the end of the last line before turning a page, but most were so slow that I had to stop my eye movement and wait a few beats before I could continue reading. Extremely distracting from the book content. And very irritating. I thought it was due to the book, because it had ridiculously long chapters. I tried cutting the chapters into smaller files, but there was no difference. The second book I read (and am still reading) turned out to be just as annoying. So then I thought it might be due to one or several of the patches I had enabled. So I disabled all patches. Still horrible irregular and slow page turn speeds. So now I think it's the firmware.
I just downgraded (downdated?) to 4.9.11311 (and enabled the patches I was using there)... dear me the screen flashes to the next page so fast, I have to do a double-take at the first line to be sure it really is the next page! I'm loving it, and will be used the continuous reading flow again very soon.
What's going on? Why did page turns get so much worse in newer firmware? I understand there's probably more to be calculated if you're showing both book progress and chapter progress and a progress bar on screen all the time, but surely there's enough time to do calculations while the current page is being read, to give 'instant' page turn when requested by the reader...? Is there any hope of the page turns getting back to normal in newer firmware (soon)?
If the page turns were only just
slow it would at least be manageable by training my page turning fingers to request a page turn early on, to time it perfectly with when I want to continue reading on the next page. But it's so irregular that perfect timing ins't possible.
*I did do a quick search for complaints about slow page turns before I posted this message, but could only find a few questions asking whether page turn speed had improved yet. I couldn't find the start of the issue or whether it was referring to epub or kepub.