Still looking for a good epub reader for large books

pruss · 01-05-2012, 08:29 AM

In the summer, I posted that I was searching for an epub reader for large books. I had tested 10 epub readers, and found none that could both instantly load a 6mb epub and search it reasonably fast.

The closest were Moon and Mantano. But while Moon had as good search speed as one can expect without full-text indexing, it took 20 seconds to load the test book, which is unacceptable for quick reference use. And while Mantano loaded the book instantly, it took 80 seconds to search. The current Moon from the Market still takes 20 seconds to load my test book. The current Mantano Free still loads fast but takes 80 seconds to search the document (which is unacceptable, since my old Palm TX can search the Plucker version of the same document in about 45 seconds).

It would be nice to be able to switch from my Palm TX with Plucker as my main ebook platform to something with a higher resolution screen and greater speed.

Has anything appeared that can do both fast loading and fast searching? Preferably, too, something that navigates by continuous scrolling rather than paging, though I can live with paging (annoying as it is to be tied to the limitations of dead-tree technology on a modern fast screen).

I am starting to be afraid that I will have to write something myself when my Palm TX finally dies. But I don't have the time...

pruss · 01-05-2012, 10:01 AM

Just tried the latest pre-release Moon+ which the developer kindly sent me a link to. 10 seconds loading time on my test file, so a big improvement. Still not quite good, but it's becoming usable.

01-05-2012, 08:29 AM	#1
pruss Evangelist Posts: 461 Karma: 819417 Join Date: Nov 2004	Still looking for a good epub reader for large books In the summer, I posted that I was searching for an epub reader for large books. I had tested 10 epub readers, and found none that could both instantly load a 6mb epub and search it reasonably fast. The closest were Moon and Mantano. But while Moon had as good search speed as one can expect without full-text indexing, it took 20 seconds to load the test book, which is unacceptable for quick reference use. And while Mantano loaded the book instantly, it took 80 seconds to search. The current Moon from the Market still takes 20 seconds to load my test book. The current Mantano Free still loads fast but takes 80 seconds to search the document (which is unacceptable, since my old Palm TX can search the Plucker version of the same document in about 45 seconds). It would be nice to be able to switch from my Palm TX with Plucker as my main ebook platform to something with a higher resolution screen and greater speed. Has anything appeared that can do both fast loading and fast searching? Preferably, too, something that navigates by continuous scrolling rather than paging, though I can live with paging (annoying as it is to be tied to the limitations of dead-tree technology on a modern fast screen). I am starting to be afraid that I will have to write something myself when my Palm TX finally dies. But I don't have the time...

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01-05-2012, 10:01 AM	#2
pruss Evangelist Posts: 461 Karma: 819417 Join Date: Nov 2004	Just tried the latest pre-release Moon+ which the developer kindly sent me a link to. 10 seconds loading time on my test file, so a big improvement. Still not quite good, but it's becoming usable.

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