Remember that iBooks 1.2 update that came out late last year? Well, one major part of that update was the addition of an auto-hyphenation feature that would help cram more words onto a single page, resulting in fewer overall pages to flip through. It’s a great idea, but I’ve found that it has literally doubled […]
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Quick tip: turn off iBooks auto-hyphenation to speed things up!

Apr 12th 2011 by

Remember that iBooks 1.2 update that came out late last year?

Well, one major part of that update was the addition of an auto-hyphenation feature that would help cram more words onto a single page, resulting in fewer overall pages to flip through. It’s a great idea, but I’ve found that it has literally doubled the time it takes me to switch orientations within the app. A 1300-page eBook on my iPhone 3GS took 10 seconds to switch from portrait to landscape, but now takes only five seconds with auto-hyphenation turned off.

So if you’ve been experiencing longer-than-normal iBooks load times, especially with large novels, you might want to give that little switch off.

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