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Old 03-16-2010, 11:43 AM   #157
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Device: Liseuse: Irex DR800. PRS 505 in the house, and the missus has an iPad.
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Originally Posted by pauli View Post
If you sort your books on "recently read", you can easily see which ones are still in the back ground memory... you'll notice that if you open the fifth book on the list, it will have the "please wait" pop-up window. The fourth book opens instantly...
I wonder if this depends on the format(s) of the recently opened. For example, if the first four recently opened are PDFs, but the fifth is epub, then the epub seems to open without the "Please wait" pop-up. So, maybe the device can hold up to four documents of each format in whatever this background memory is.

Also, rebooting seems to clear this background memory. Whilst your recently opened list will still be there on rebooting, it takes longer for the device to open even those at the top of the list, and you get the "Please wait" pop-up-

So, maybe rebooting before putting to stand-by may lengthen battery life by clearing this supposed background memory. It might also be an argument for implementing an optional "off" state which would also clear this memory.

Last edited by TGS; 03-16-2010 at 11:46 AM. Reason: I lost a square bracket around pauli's quote! - then I spelled pauli's name wrong!!
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