Hmm, I wonder if it will be worse when you get 90% through the book. It would be interesting to bookmark your current location and jump forward . Try just being patient with VoiceOVer and seeing if it consistently becomes unbusy after a specific time. Jonathan
> On Jan 31, 2020, at 2:51 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Thanks Jonathan, that distinction is helpful. The busy is happening about 180 > pages into a 300 page book which has no dynamic content I am sure. Also there > is very little else open and running on the MacBook error when this happens. > I’ll just keep an ion it and see how things go Sent from my IPhone > > >> On Jan 30, 2020, at 9:50 PM, Jonathan C. Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I personally have never experienced Books going busy, but when VO says >> busy, it means that the application is not speaking properly to VO, not >> necessary illy that the app is doing >> too much work. If for example VO asks for every thing ,in a 900 page book, >> that could cause a busy. Also I wonder what happens if there is dynamic >> content in the book. In early versions of Safari, asking for a list of links >> on aweb site that had refreshing ads would cause a never ending busy. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Jan 30, 2020, at 2:51 PM, 'Devin Prater' via MacVisionaries >>> <macvisionaries@googlegroups.com> wrote: >>> >>> When you buy a book, and open it on the Mac, the book is downloaded. >>> Besides that, I can only advise you to close other apps before opening the >>> Books app, and see if that helps. >>> >>>>> On Jan 30, 2020, at 1:39 PM, Phil Halton <philh...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Sent from my IPhone I’m having a little trouble with Books app on Mac >>>> going busy from time to time without any apparent reason. There’s no great >>>> surge in processor or fan but it just goes busy. 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