Slow Slow in MS Reader w/X5

cocoatom · 01-11-04, 07:14 PM

I was trying to read a large book--almost 1.8MB--in MS REader, and it was taking FOREVER for the book to load, and getting around in the book was extremely sluggish. I do not have tons of stuff on my X5, so I am wondering what was slowing down the processer so much. Hell, it was like running Windows 3.1!!

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance

JakeRich · 01-11-04, 10:27 PM

that is a very large book. None of my full length novels are that large. I suspect it is stressing the reader signficantly to have a file that large open.

cocoatom · 01-12-04, 07:49 AM

OK, that makes sense. I will pay more attention to the size of documents that goes to Reader. This doc was actually a sample copy of Pocket PC Magazine. I will have to read it on my laptop, I guess.

Thanks.

deaddred · 01-12-04, 09:23 AM

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Originally posted by cocoatom
I was trying to read a large book--almost 1.8MB--in MS REader, and it was taking FOREVER for the book to load, and getting around in the book was extremely sluggish. I do not have tons of stuff on my X5, so I am wondering what was slowing down the processer so much. Hell, it was like running Windows 3.1!!

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks in advance

Does your Axim have the bugged A04 WM2003 ROM? That does a nice job of bringing the machine to its knees.

cocoatom · 01-12-04, 09:36 AM

I don't think so. I purchased the unit last May, and am running PPC 2002. The processor is the PXA255. I have been contemplating upgrading to PPC 2003. Any ideas there?

dan12 · 01-16-04, 10:41 AM

Are you loading the book from the SD card? because they are slow. So if you are, you might want to try to load it from ram.

01-16-04, 10:51 AM

I've placed all my eBooks on my SD card, and a few of them are over 1 MB. As I get toward the end of the book, the load times get really long, but I don't like the idea of loading the books into main memory.

JakeRich · 01-16-04, 12:43 PM

It's not the load times, it's the pagination time. The pages are not calculated until the book is loaded and the font size is set. Once your page is paginated, it displays it and paginates the rest in the background. When you are toward the end of the book, it cannot go to your last page until it paginates to that page which can take a long time. Loading in main memory won't fix it because at that point it's already in main memory.

01-16-04, 01:17 PM

Try deleting the bookmark/annotations files (\MyDocuments\Annotations\*.ebo).

This seemed to help performance, especially with a large volume I often used as reference.

Keeping most books on SD, I'd just remove the *.lit when I was finished. I never bothered to go through the official "remove from Library" process in MSReader. Lot's of obsolete files out there and I suspect they were "plugging up the works".

Just note what page you're on if your still reading the book!

Still, MSReader is much slower that previous version.