Touch Does number of books affects performance ?

Akto · 12-21-2011, 06:34 AM

Hi !

Can't find a clear answer on that one.

With 876 books (epubs) loaded, the reader slows down significantly. Start up takes up to 1.5 min., even without a sdhc card inserted.

10 to 20 seconds are needed to perform any task requested. Is it normal ?

Thanks in advance for your feed back !

Latch · 12-21-2011, 09:04 AM

Perhaps it's doing a content scan at startup? For me, I've found it pointless to load a zillion books when I get the time to read one per month. I generally only keep 2-3 books loaded at any given time. Startup is fast.

taming · 12-21-2011, 09:14 AM

I currently don't keep many books on my Touch and never kept 800+, but I do know that there doesn't seem to be a difference between 40 and 190.

JedV · 12-21-2011, 09:27 AM

I agree with the notion that less is more. I keep about 20 or so books on my KT without any obvious slowdowns.

My main reasoning is that the navigation of books within your library is poor on the KT as compared to other eReaders, management software such as Calibre, or even Windows Explorer. Does anyone really need hundreds of books on the device at a time, except for a novelty factor?

toonhenry · 12-21-2011, 10:57 AM

Fiction books not so much, I'm only going to read one or two at a time. Reference books on the other hand I prefer to keep on hand because I frequently look things up. (Yes I know the Internet exists, but sometimes you want to check the same source you originally read the information from)

The Terminator · 12-21-2011, 11:22 AM

I keep around a hundred on mine.

Xennex1170 · 12-21-2011, 10:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akto

Hi !

Can't find a clear answer on that one.

With 876 books (epubs) loaded, the reader slows down significantly. Start up takes up to 1.5 min., even without a sdhc card inserted.

10 to 20 seconds are needed to perform any task requested. Is it normal ?

Thanks in advance for your feed back !

I'd have to say 10-20secs for any task is a bit long.. I have 2171 ebooks on my device between the SD card and internal memory and do notice a slowdown when doing searches and during startup but other than that when reading ebooks, accessing help, or viewing any settings it is very responsive. I believe my startup is about 1.5 minutes also.

masona8 · 12-22-2011, 01:36 AM

I have the original kobo and a kindle keyboard and I find that my ereader slows down as well. The sellers of these ereaders boast that you can have so many thousands of books on their device and they should look beyond their own advertising to improve their hardware so it can cope with their own advertising.

Akto · 12-22-2011, 03:12 AM

Thank you all for your replies.

Your reply Xennex 1170 is very interesting as it's close to my experience. I should have mentioned that turning pages is, fortunately, not affected by "lag" most of the times.

The slowdown is significant (up to 20 s) while opening "library", "reading life", "search". Going back to the "home" page takes a while too...

After trying different things, yesterday I did a full reset. With 100 books everything is still fine. At 200 (i.e. 300 mb only out of 1400 mb) the slowdown begins to appear even if it's barely noticeable.

More feedback will be welcome before I decide to replace my reader (cf. thread about sdhc greatly affecting autonomy).

Xennex1170 · 12-22-2011, 03:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Akto

Thank you all for your replies.

Your reply Xennex 1170 is very interesting as it's close to my experience. I should have mentioned that turning pages is, fortunately, not affected by "lag" most of the times.

The slowdown is significant (up to 20 s) while opening "library", "reading life", "search". Going back to the "home" page takes a while too...

After trying different things, yesterday I did a full reset. With 100 books everything is still fine. At 200 (i.e. 300 mb only out of 1400 mb) the slowdown begins to appear even if it's barely noticeable.

More feedback will be welcome before I decide to replace my reader (cf. thread about sdhc greatly affecting autonomy).

Hmm.. I average about 8 sec to open any item under Library, Reading Life, and search the first time and about 5 sec after that. Returning to home page is about 3-4 sec. About 5 seconds for it to return from typing the first letter in "search" then less than a sec for each following letter in the search term. Going to settings from the homepage is practically instant. Returning to home from settings is about 5 secs.

Akto · 12-23-2011, 03:14 AM

Thank you Xennex1170 for this detailed answer. It will be a good reference for my further testing of the device before taking a decision to exchange it or not.

TonyToews · 12-24-2011, 03:34 PM

After I loaded 500 books I noticed that startup took a bit longer. Three or five seconds. Other than that I didn't notice any difference.

grinch · 12-25-2011, 06:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JedV

I agree with the notion that less is more. I keep about 20 or so books on my KT without any obvious slowdowns.

My main reasoning is that the navigation of books within your library is poor on the KT as compared to other eReaders, management software such as Calibre, or even Windows Explorer. Does anyone really need hundreds of books on the device at a time, except for a novelty factor?

Well, I have something like 600 books. Since I leave home for usually a week and since I do not know what I will have/want to read, 600 books on my kobo is not uninteresting.. I read mainly databooks,comics and novels.Comics are not that long (so they are a lot) and databooks are quite numerous, since most of time I will just read small parts, but in many.
I also like to read and reread so it's very cool to be able to take with me all my books.

Nigol · 12-26-2011, 11:53 AM

I too have experienced slow down, particularly when going back to the home screen where it takes around 10 sec for me (have around 400 books). It was around 8sec with 300.

I don't see why I have a eReader to keep only a couple of books on it, it defeats the purpose of having one in the first place.

I can't understand why it would slow down like this, because it is a database and having 5 or 1000 item in it shouldn't take more time to access it. I can understand at startup it would need to scan for new files, but for closing a book?

Akto · 12-26-2011, 12:27 PM

Thank you for the additional feedbacks.

The good news is that there's nothing wrong with my device.

The bad news is that the increasing slow down is "normal" at least at this stage of development of the Kobo Touch firmware.

12-21-2011, 06:34 AM	#1
Akto Member Posts: 15 Karma: 628 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kobo touch	Does number of books affects performance ? Hi ! Can't find a clear answer on that one. With 876 books (epubs) loaded, the reader slows down significantly. Start up takes up to 1.5 min., even without a sdhc card inserted. 10 to 20 seconds are needed to perform any task requested. Is it normal ? Thanks in advance for your feed back !

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12-21-2011, 09:04 AM	#2
Latch Porcupine Tree fan Posts: 139 Karma: 357322 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Ottawa, Canada Device: Kobo Touch	Perhaps it's doing a content scan at startup? For me, I've found it pointless to load a zillion books when I get the time to read one per month. I generally only keep 2-3 books loaded at any given time. Startup is fast.

12-21-2011, 09:14 AM	#3
taming Trying for calm & polite Posts: 4,012 Karma: 9455193 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Mostly in Canada Device: kobo original, WiFI, Touch, Glo, and Aura	I currently don't keep many books on my Touch and never kept 800+, but I do know that there doesn't seem to be a difference between 40 and 190.

12-21-2011, 09:27 AM	#4
JedV Kobo Toucher Posts: 62 Karma: 103942 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Vancouver Device: Kobo Touch	I agree with the notion that less is more. I keep about 20 or so books on my KT without any obvious slowdowns. My main reasoning is that the navigation of books within your library is poor on the KT as compared to other eReaders, management software such as Calibre, or even Windows Explorer. Does anyone really need hundreds of books on the device at a time, except for a novelty factor?

12-21-2011, 10:57 AM	#5
toonhenry Junior Member Posts: 3 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2011 Device: Kobo Touch	Fiction books not so much, I'm only going to read one or two at a time. Reference books on the other hand I prefer to keep on hand because I frequently look things up. (Yes I know the Internet exists, but sometimes you want to check the same source you originally read the information from)

12-21-2011, 11:22 AM	#6
The Terminator Retired Posts: 2,552 Karma: 37638420 Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Vancouver Island Canada Device: Kobo Touch, Optimus One (2.3), Nexus 7 (4.2)	I keep around a hundred on mine.

12-22-2011, 01:36 AM	#8
masona8 Enthusiast Posts: 27 Karma: 10 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kobo, Kindle DX graphite, Kindle 3	I have the original kobo and a kindle keyboard and I find that my ereader slows down as well. The sellers of these ereaders boast that you can have so many thousands of books on their device and they should look beyond their own advertising to improve their hardware so it can cope with their own advertising.

12-22-2011, 03:12 AM	#9
Akto Member Posts: 15 Karma: 628 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kobo touch	Thank you all for your replies. Your reply Xennex 1170 is very interesting as it's close to my experience. I should have mentioned that turning pages is, fortunately, not affected by "lag" most of the times. The slowdown is significant (up to 20 s) while opening "library", "reading life", "search". Going back to the "home" page takes a while too... After trying different things, yesterday I did a full reset. With 100 books everything is still fine. At 200 (i.e. 300 mb only out of 1400 mb) the slowdown begins to appear even if it's barely noticeable. More feedback will be welcome before I decide to replace my reader (cf. thread about sdhc greatly affecting autonomy).

12-23-2011, 03:14 AM	#11
Akto Member Posts: 15 Karma: 628 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kobo touch	Thank you Xennex1170 for this detailed answer. It will be a good reference for my further testing of the device before taking a decision to exchange it or not.

12-24-2011, 03:34 PM	#12
TonyToews Evangelist Posts: 490 Karma: 351398 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kobo Vox and Glo	After I loaded 500 books I noticed that startup took a bit longer. Three or five seconds. Other than that I didn't notice any difference.

12-26-2011, 11:53 AM	#14
Nigol Groupie Posts: 185 Karma: 363616 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Montreal, Canada Device: Kobo Original, Kobo Touch	I too have experienced slow down, particularly when going back to the home screen where it takes around 10 sec for me (have around 400 books). It was around 8sec with 300. I don't see why I have a eReader to keep only a couple of books on it, it defeats the purpose of having one in the first place. I can't understand why it would slow down like this, because it is a database and having 5 or 1000 item in it shouldn't take more time to access it. I can understand at startup it would need to scan for new files, but for closing a book?

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12-26-2011, 12:27 PM	#15
Akto Member Posts: 15 Karma: 628 Join Date: Nov 2011 Device: Kobo touch	Thank you for the additional feedbacks. The good news is that there's nothing wrong with my device. The bad news is that the increasing slow down is "normal" at least at this stage of development of the Kobo Touch firmware.