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markbond1007 · 08-06-2009, 06:52 AM

Im on the latest Calibre (0.6.5), and have found that the reader is very slow to both open and scroll/move between pages for Mobi format files. I have compared both an ePub (downloaded Harald from the Baen free library), then converted that to a Mobi using Calibre and other mobi/epub books. In just about all cases (as far as I can tell) the Mobi version is always a lot slower than the ePub. Now given up until recently I had always used Mobi ebooks, I thought it was just that the reader was quite slow, but now after trying the ePub I can see its not that. Just wondering really if it was something inherent in the MObi format or if there was something wrong with the Mobi output/conversion etc.

For info this is on Mac OSX 10.4

Regards

Mark

08-06-2009, 06:52 AM	#1
markbond1007 Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 122 Join Date: Jul 2008 Device: CyBook Gen3, Sony PRS-600	Calibre Ebook Reader - Slow in Mobi Im on the latest Calibre (0.6.5), and have found that the reader is very slow to both open and scroll/move between pages for Mobi format files. I have compared both an ePub (downloaded Harald from the Baen free library), then converted that to a Mobi using Calibre and other mobi/epub books. In just about all cases (as far as I can tell) the Mobi version is always a lot slower than the ePub. Now given up until recently I had always used Mobi ebooks, I thought it was just that the reader was quite slow, but now after trying the ePub I can see its not that. Just wondering really if it was something inherent in the MObi format or if there was something wrong with the Mobi output/conversion etc. For info this is on Mac OSX 10.4 Regards Mark