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View Poll Results: How is your iLiad flipbar configured?
Default - Clicking left means the paper to go left (forward) 41 71.93%
Reversed - Clicking left means "I" go left (backward) 14 24.56%
N/A (just want to see the results) 2 3.51%
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Old 04-17-2008, 02:17 AM   #1
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I never understood what polls in forums are good for, so here a nice idea for a useless poll.
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Old 04-17-2008, 02:23 AM   #2
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I like useless polls and i like the way the flipbar was designed. Its a really good idea, i think. I just wish, there were one on each side of the iLiad.
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Old 04-17-2008, 02:32 AM   #3
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I like useless polls and i like the way the flipbar was designed. Its a really good idea, i think. I just wish, there were one on each side of the iLiad.
Indeed.

Or if the software would support it, and the design would be a bit more symetrical one could hold it upsite-down to use in the right hand.
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Old 04-17-2008, 05:45 AM   #4
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And another flip bar on the top for reading in landscape mode. Maybe a moveable flipbar is needed?
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Old 04-17-2008, 07:13 AM   #5
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And another flip bar on the top for reading in landscape mode.
Dunno, I don't find the top flipbar really distrubing while reading in landscape mode... But I never actually had a "real" landscape document...

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Maybe a moveable flipbar is needed?
This sounds like an interesting patent idea
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Old 04-17-2008, 07:25 AM   #6
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hm.. well, i for one like the flipbar on the left. (being that i'm representative of 90% of the world) :P
that said, if i had two flipbars i'd just configure the other one to do something else useful, like uncorrupting my fat32 format after i've connected my iliad to the autobackup software
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I don't use landscape too often, but it would be nice to be able to reverse the unit and operate the flipbar with the other hand. The eBookwise 1150 is designed to be operated with either hand.
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Old 04-17-2008, 12:48 PM   #8
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I voted for "reversed" mode. I was happy when a firmware update got this mode.
"Default" is unnatural for me.
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I voted for "reversed" mode. I was happy when a firmware update got this mode.
"Default" is unnatural for me.
+1

When I want to move forward in a book, I'm going to press forward... Makes sense to me.
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Old 04-17-2008, 03:36 PM   #10
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When you're reading a physical book though, page turns are to the left. That's how I usually think about it, so left clicks feel more natural to me.
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Especially in landscape mode, the default setting makes much sense to me, as I want *the paper* to go up or down... not "I" want to go down, I want the paper to move up.
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Old 04-17-2008, 06:01 PM   #12
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I actually prefer pushing the flipbar to the right to advance to the next page, but I find that I get a more consistent response when having it set the other way. (push to the left to advance the page)

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Old 04-20-2008, 10:20 AM   #13
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When I've just got my iLiad pushing left seemed a bit confusing, but:

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When you're reading a physical book though, page turns are to the left. That's how I usually think about it, so left clicks feel more natural to me.

+1

2nd reason: As my iLiad is always inside an M-Edge cover, left clicks are much more convinient.
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hm.. well, i for one like the flipbar on the left. (being that i'm representative of 90% of the world) :P
that said, if i had two flipbars i'd just configure the other one to do something else useful, like uncorrupting my fat32 format after i've connected my iliad to the autobackup software
I belong to the other 10% of the world and as a consequence I don't a have problem with backup software corrupting my iLiad

I don't know, it must be a right-hander thing
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Old 04-20-2008, 08:56 PM   #15
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When I first got my iLiad, the NOISE that the flip bar made irritated me. Book reading is meant to be silent!!!!

But yanno, after a few hundred pages, I got over it.
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