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Originally Posted by BWinmill
While your guess makes sense from the perspective of pages in a book, it is also worth remembering that ePubs are compressed. It is far more likely that ePubs are being accessed a file at a time (from the perspective of the container, not the file system) than in smaller chunks. I would imagine that the filesystem plays a role to, since they frequently cache data in order to avoid less efficient reads.
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Good point. But wouldn't the decompressed file be stored somewhere that the reading software accesses in the increments it needs?
Luck;
Ken