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Slow loading persists--& dog-eared page momentarily displayed

1) Slow loading. Hyphenation off. 6-7 seconds to launch Stanza and return to John W. Campbell's "The Black Star Passes", a book downloaded via wifi from within Stanza from Gutenberg. Same amount of time, each time. (I can actually count 1 one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, and get up to 8 one-thousand!)

I just checked on the Gutenberg site and the book is only 176K in size in epub format (and only 233K in an epub format with images, which my ebook doesn't have). It's relatively fast to return to from within Stanza itself (2-3 seconds).

By the way, a mini book review: it starts well, but rapidly becomes a tedious read--and even more tedious having to wait for it to load! :-) Not great sf, so don't bother tracking it down!

2) Once you've set a bookmark in a book, when re-opening that book, it displays the dog ear, even if you're well past that page.

File that under C for Curiosity...

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1. The problem with a number

1. The problem with a number of the titles in the Gutenberg catalog is that they are all one giant chapter. Stanza loads books on a chapter-by-chapter basis, so the larger the chapter the longer it takes to load. Note that you can improve loading speed somewhat by disabling hyphenation, but large chapters will still take longer to load.

2. You're right ... that's an odd bug. We'll look into it.

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