[mdhuang]

I received my Reader last week and in love with it. It is not a perfect device as everybody knows. But with the hacks and other tricks people posted here, it has become a very useful device for reading books.

However, one thing is driving me crazy. It takes forever to open TOC if you have a little bit more items. I have a book with 82-item TOC, and it takes 5 minutes to open the TOC.

I wouldn't be so mad if this happens only the first time you open it just as you open a new book on memory card and it takes a bit time to do the formatting. It happens EVERY TIME I open the TOC. It seems no caching is done for TOC. After you open a page from TOC and then press Menu to go back to it, it takes another 5 minutes to display the TOC.

And worse, there is no way to get out of the wait (excluding a pin reset). You can only sit there to watch a frozen screen.

This is an area I found that a paper book can handle 100 times faster than the reader. Without TOC navigation, reading is not as enjoyable since you can't jump around.

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