Irregular/very slow page turns (kepub)

[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

* You also appear to be using an old MiniClock version that does a crapload of refreshes, try without it, or with a current version from my tweaked branch. The unexpected extra refresh requests may coerce the kernel into waiting a bit to sort things out, delaying the actual useful refresh in the process.

Originally Posted by jackie_w

I used a ClaraHD with OpenDyslexic and NiLuJe's latest MiniClock version and tried 2 different books, a short one with short-ish chapters and a long one with longer chapters. The results were the same.

Originally Posted by Mrs_Often

I've just uninstalled the MiniClock completely and will do some timeless reading in 4.24.15676. Lets see how frustrated I get.

That was it!!! Reading with everything unchanged except the Olde MiniClock uninstalled stopped the ridiculously slow and irregular page turns!! I'm so happy!



...now on to the finetuning of the new MiniClock settings

[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by jackie_w

It might be worth pursuing that line, though, if you have time. It's an obvious point of difference between your test and mine. I only have English books, hence an English hyphenation dictionary was in use. If you also read English books sometimes, try one of those.

Very true! I did fail to mention that I actually mostly read English books and very seldom read Dutch books, and the first book I read on the new firmware was coincidentally Dutch, so it was the first thing I suspected! "It" being something to do with the language, but I didn't think far enough to (hyphenation) dictionaries.

In any case, it appears it was the Olde MiniClock, as both English and Dutch books are now super fast page turners.

[jackie_w]

Originally Posted by Mrs_Often

In any case, it appears it was the Olde MiniClock, as both English and Dutch books are now super fast page turners.

Excellent!

[PeterT]

I think one lesson that can be learnt from this is while you did the right thing early on in removing all patches and trying, it would also have been good to remove / disable all add-ons.

[NiLuJe]

And I now feel vaguely better about having spent time on the MiniClock rework, for something I essentially never use myself ;p.

[Mrs_Often]

Originally Posted by PeterT

I think one lesson that can be learnt from this is while you did the right thing early on in removing all patches and trying, it would also have been good to remove / disable all add-ons.

Yep!

Originally Posted by NiLuJe

And I now feel vaguely better about having spent time on the MiniClock rework, for something I essentially never use myself ;p.

Only vaguely? I’ve been dancing around the room I’m so happy! Just ask my husband, I keep saying “I’m so happy!” to him every three seconds!



(And only the “three seconds” part of that is exaggerated...)