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Uplinker
Edit to add: It occurs to me that my original Airbus FBW A320 type rating course, (all those years ago), and the subsequent A330 course, were taught in a classroom over several weeks, and we each had our own big 2" thick paper FCOMs. These huge paper copies might well have made it easier to assimilate the information, and mark pages and annotate or highlight text etc, than only ever being able to see one page at a time on an iPad. That might well be the problem here. Perhaps you can find a paper FCOM?
The format certainly doesn't help. Sometimes it is good to be able to flick through something physical like a book. I have the FCOM in two formats, as a PDF that can be read on any PDF app such as GoodReader for the iPad, and as a FlySmart OLB document. The FlySmart document is rendered as white text on a black background which isn't the nicest to read, meanwhile the PDF has each DU displayed multiple times depending on how many tails it applies to which makes it awkward to read as well.