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Kamu · 02-12-2012, 05:05 AM

Hi all,

I bought a Kobo Touch and have been reading the O'Reilly book 'The Tangled Web' by Michal Zalewski (which, funny enough, is about web standards etc).

It doesn't perform well at all.
* Preprocessing gets stuck at 9% (when you first load the book onto the device)
* Selecting the book from the main screen takes maybe a minute or more for the book to actually load.
* Margin/font size changes on the Kobo more or less freeze the device.
* Changing location in the book using the slider looks like it freezes the device as well, but if you leave it long enough it will change the page, I guess.
* Paging through chapters is quite slow and doesn't actually turn the page with out ANOTHER page turn tap. So it progresses two pages, and I have to turn back one. This happens with out fail on all chapters.

Is this because the Kobo firmware is rubbish? Checking out the files in a text editor shows they aren't THAT big, maybe 20kb each.

02-12-2012, 05:05 AM	#1
Kamu Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Kobo Touch	O'Reilly Books Hi all, I bought a Kobo Touch and have been reading the O'Reilly book 'The Tangled Web' by Michal Zalewski (which, funny enough, is about web standards etc). It doesn't perform well at all. * Preprocessing gets stuck at 9% (when you first load the book onto the device) * Selecting the book from the main screen takes maybe a minute or more for the book to actually load. * Margin/font size changes on the Kobo more or less freeze the device. * Changing location in the book using the slider looks like it freezes the device as well, but if you leave it long enough it will change the page, I guess. * Paging through chapters is quite slow and doesn't actually turn the page with out ANOTHER page turn tap. So it progresses two pages, and I have to turn back one. This happens with out fail on all chapters. Is this because the Kobo firmware is rubbish? Checking out the files in a text editor shows they aren't THAT big, maybe 20kb each.