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Old 08-20-2009, 03:02 AM   #3
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Originally Posted by richough3 View Post
I was wondering what some of the ebook load times are on their ereaders. I had read about one user talking about a 4.5 meg sci-fi omnibus taking up to 3 minutes to open, although I forgot which device it was on. I had converted a lot of .LIT files to Mobi and I have trilogies that are a little over 5 megs and even single books that exceed 3 megs as I like to read the epic novels due. So, to further clarify, what are some general load times on book formats and file sizes for your ereader.
The Sony Reader is really the only device which has significant "load times", and that's only for BBeB format books (LRF/LRX) which haven't been "paginated" by the Sony eBook software on the PC. In that circumstance, the Reader itself will paginate the book the first time it's opened, and the first time a given font size is selected. That can take several minutes for a large book. Once it's been paginated, it will reopen instantly.

On pretty much any other device, opening a book is more or less instantaneous, and really doesn't depend on the size of the book.
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