They both employ E Ink Pearl, which is more susceptible to ghosting and
slower page turns.
This device is employing older e-ink technology called Pearl, which result in a bit
slower page turns.
I don't like how
slow the page turns are — I'm a really fast reader and it seems all I do is wait for the page to turn on my Aura One — so I usually read on my Android tablet except out in the sun where the AO really, um shines.
This is super important when you are immersed in a book, and
the slow page turns will almost take you out of your head space, making you frustrated.
B&N also hurt themselves by releasing a Nook that wasn't very polished — bugs, freezing,
slow page turns, sluggishness in the controls, and unintuitive user interface.
With the Amazon Kindle (third - generation), Amazon addresses many of the transgressions of earlier Kindle iterations, such as relatively heavy weight,
slow page turns, and finger - unfriendly button designs.
DH decided to just keep it and deal with
the slow page turns because it didn't bother him too much.
The replacement has had no crashes, and has a more solid power switch (the first one was «wiggly») but still has
slow page turns.
However it also had very
slow page turns, which prompted me to call amazon.
This is 3 k3's in a row that have had
this slow page turn issue, and it's pretty disappointing.
If you struggle with finding light to read, get frustrated with
slow page turns or low resolutions, or merely hate how big your current ebook reader is, upgrading might be worthwhile.
Not exact matches
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You have to
turn pages, so you're more likely to
slow down or get sloppy»... or fall off completely.
When comparing
page turns in side - by - side comparisons, the Kobo Mini proved to be a hair
slower than Barnes & Noble Nook Simple Touch, which may be due to the 800 - MHz processor under the hood.
But then it's nice to go back to the
page, and organise panel numbers and
page turns to speed up the reader and
slow her down again.
«E-paper is very
slow to change state, to
turn the
page, almost a second — there's that flash, that visual artifact, of the switch to black and back as the screen is cleared and redisplayed.»
1.5 second for a
page turn is just too
slow for me.
ok, the first book was kind of
slow although I did enjoy Jones» wonderful evocative writing, her eye for making the world visually leap to life [the tundra is just a bit of a non-inspiring setting, unfortunately], but here the story picks up a lot of momentum, with me
turning the
pages quicker and quicker to see what's going to happen.
The Kobo Touch is the
slowest at
page -
turns, followed closely by the Kindle Touch.
While e-book fans usually adjust to the
page - change times (which are, after all, not really
slower than the time required to
turn a physical paper
page), the
slow response time clearly makes today's e-book readers unsuited for video.
You can
turn pages as fast as you wish on a Kindle (actually one of the complaints about the device has been that screen refresh is a little
slow, but let's ignore that quibble) without ever worrying about this eReader bursting into flames.
It's a little
slow at
turning pages, but will view jpg, png, and gif.
I remember when the Paperwhite 2 first came out, the
page turn rates would be really
slow and files over 100 MB would simply crash.
The Book application
turns pages much akin to the Apple iBooks app that allows you to peak at the next
page by
slowing dragging your finder.
Although in our side by side tests the Amazon Kindle was faster in
page turns and other things, it ended up proving itself to be
slow at times due to the requirement of manually scrolling to highlight words and access settings.
This thing is painfully
slow doing anything other than
page turns.
If you swipe
pages left / right it is really
slow and the refresh on the
page turn is disjointing.
From what I read below, the
page turning animations are way too
slow on e-ink.
The Kindle app works just a little smoother on the Sony as far as
page -
turns, but it's
slower to load.
E-Ink screen is easy on the eyes and battery efficient, but makes
pages slow to «
turn» and does not come in color
I was excited, but after checking several reviews, it seems to be very
slow, I can see it take so much time to
turn a
page, and that is not a pdf even.
The Nook now
turns pages in a hair less than a second instead of taking a
slow 2 seconds, putting it on a par with the Kindle 3G.
Page turning is rather
slow and cumbersome.
In regards to the «flashing» you mentioned, I know exactly what you're talking about because I have an older kobo and it was kind of
slow to
turn pages and had that «flashing».
Cinematic scene breaks and propulsive reveals will keep the
pages furiously
turning in this
slow - burning but explosive thriller.
It also
slows down the
turning of the
pages of an E-Book in the e-reader.
Also it was extremely
slow in in
page turning against the Story HD.
I need to load Android app, surf the web (just news website, even if is
slow it could be good) a USB, BT and WiFi foot pedal to
turn pages and read music, SD memory slot, epub and.
As far as speed goes, I found
page turns to be slightly
slower than the Paperwhite when tapping the screen, but slightly faster using PagePress.
The
page turns are a little
slow and the library was a little confusing at first but now that I have the hang of it I consider it to be an excellent device.
I agree the
page turns are fast but the overall user interface is much
slower than Kindle or even Kobo.
Screen contrast was roughly equivalent to a Barnes & Noble Nook ($ 199,) I had on hand, though
page turns were slightly
slower.
In our tests, the Fire was actually
slower to load most sites — even two recommended by Amazon — when we had the «Accelerate
page loading» feature
turned on.
Resistive touchscreen not very responsive; Sluggish performance;
Page turns slower than some e-Ink eReaders; Mediocre multimedia playback; Can't sideload apps
Some
turn pages super
slow and some start to freeze and glitch out when pinch - zooming.
I have heard that the
page turning for PDF is very
slow.
That can have an adverse affect on the reader by
slowing down the time it takes to download the book and even
slows down how long it takes to «
turn»
pages.
As you can see in my video,
page turns and eInk refreshing was just slightly
slower than my Nook.
Believe it or not, when I switch back to paper, I find
turning pages (instead of just pressing a button)
slows me down!