IPad and Kindle Reading Speeds

Re:IPad and Kindle Reading Speeds by sliverstorm on Friday July 02, 2010 @05:45PM (#1482474)

That is a rocking deal. You're right, pretty irresistible. Only reason I haven't already pulled the trigger is I get the feeling a new model will be released soon.

Unfortunately, navigating from page to page on the Kindles is slow. With my Kindle 2, it's like 'click... page load... page refresh.. done', takes about 2-3 seconds. That's a long time when you are flipping through pages. I can't speak for PDF's specifically, but the real limitation is the screen, so I imagine they are about the same.

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Re:IPad and Kindle Reading Speeds by potatolicious on Friday July 02, 2010 @07:55PM (#1482787)

I bought my father a Kindle DX - he enjoys it, but I would not be able to stand it. Call us the spoiled computing generation - but with complex graphics-laden PDFs, the Kindle can take up to ten seconds to change page. That's ludicrous and, and it alone wipes out any advantage e-ink has over backlit.

The entirety of the Kindle software is really, really slow. I'm not convinced this is simply a matter of the e-ink display - even things that do not force a full refresh of the display incur large wait times.

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