Touch Issues with very large book

ScrabbleDude · 09-07-2011, 12:33 PM

I'm reading a sideloaded book that is 1700+ pages. It is a collection of 6 books. When using the table of contents to jump to a specific book, my KT crashes. Also, the text formatting does not match my default formatting, and when I try to change it the KT crashes.

Has anyone else noticed an issue with very large books?

Joe563 · 09-07-2011, 12:50 PM

I have two very large non-Kobo EPUBs, one 47MB and the other 34MB. If I put these two books on my SD card, the Touch does not show them - they have to be added to the Touch main storage. Also, one of the books has a very large table of contents, which if used, takes minutes to navigate to the selected chapter.

JD Gumby · 09-07-2011, 02:30 PM

Assuming they're not DRM'd (or you able to and have no ethical problems with removing DRM), use Calibre's conversion tool on them. There is an option to split large files into, by default, 260k chunks. That should keep your Touches from puking when trying to navigate. The formatting will likely suffer a bit, though.

(dunno about the issue of it not loading the large files, though - mine had no trouble when I loaded a couple of 60MB comics (.cbz) archives onto it to see how bad it'd be; the results were horrible and I'd really love to see a fit-to-width landscape mode for .cbr/.cbz)

09-07-2011, 12:33 PM	#1
ScrabbleDude Junior Member Posts: 5 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: Kobo Touch	Issues with very large book I'm reading a sideloaded book that is 1700+ pages. It is a collection of 6 books. When using the table of contents to jump to a specific book, my KT crashes. Also, the text formatting does not match my default formatting, and when I try to change it the KT crashes. Has anyone else noticed an issue with very large books?

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09-07-2011, 12:50 PM	#2
Joe563 Never spit into the wind. Posts: 328 Karma: 23499 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: New Westminster, BC Device: Kobo Original, Kobo Touch, Kobo Android(smartphone & tablet)	I have two very large non-Kobo EPUBs, one 47MB and the other 34MB. If I put these two books on my SD card, the Touch does not show them - they have to be added to the Touch main storage. Also, one of the books has a very large table of contents, which if used, takes minutes to navigate to the selected chapter.

09-07-2011, 02:30 PM	#3
JD Gumby Cynical Old Curmudgeon Posts: 1,085 Karma: 8495696 Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Halifax, Canada Device: Kobo Mini, Kobo Arc, HTC Desire C	Assuming they're not DRM'd (or you able to and have no ethical problems with removing DRM), use Calibre's conversion tool on them. There is an option to split large files into, by default, 260k chunks. That should keep your Touches from puking when trying to navigate. The formatting will likely suffer a bit, though. (dunno about the issue of it not loading the large files, though - mine had no trouble when I loaded a couple of 60MB comics (.cbz) archives onto it to see how bad it'd be; the results were horrible and I'd really love to see a fit-to-width landscape mode for .cbr/.cbz)

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