slow loading & navigation to card containing large field

[Richard Gaskin]

David V Glasgow wrote:

 > Loading the plain text list of URLs from file is slowish, but more
 > importantly, for some time gives no indication that the file is
 > loading.

Are you reading the file as text or binary?

I would imagine reading as binary would be more efficient since it's a 
straight pull from disk, without the content alterations text-read does.

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