Paperwhite Perodicals Navigation; Gestures

weatherman · 10-17-2012, 02:09 PM

My KPW finally arrived today, and I'm just on training wheels now so forgive me if this has been covered before.

My biggest frustration with the KPW right now is the fact that navigating the New York Times (which I basically read cover-to-cover every day) is more cumbersome than on my old K3K. Getting back to the articles page requires using two hands and making multiple taps instead of a simple click of the d-pad. I'm really hoping there is some kind of "tap zone" setting or gesture that solves this problem, but from what I can tell there are only three gestures: swipe back a page, swipe forward a page and two-finger swipe left or right to increase or decrease font size.

I'd like to see a lot more options for gestures and zones, but right now it's pretty limited. Or maybe I'm missing something?

tomsem · 10-17-2012, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by weatherman

My KPW finally arrived today, and I'm just on training wheels now so forgive me if this has been covered before.

My biggest frustration with the KPW right now is the fact that navigating the New York Times (which I basically read cover-to-cover every day) is more cumbersome than on my old K3K. Getting back to the articles page requires using two hands and making multiple taps instead of a simple click of the d-pad. I'm really hoping there is some kind of "tap zone" setting or gesture that solves this problem, but from what I can tell there are only three gestures: swipe back a page, swipe forward a page and two-finger swipe left or right to increase or decrease font size.

I'd like to see a lot more options for gestures and zones, but right now it's pretty limited. Or maybe I'm missing something?

There's another gesture: swipe up goes to the next article, swipe down goes to start of current/start of previous. This used to also work with ebook chapters but they took it out.

You can also tap the next article label at the bottom of the screen to jump to that article.

weatherman · 10-17-2012, 02:55 PM

Thanks - that's helpful.

What I'm really hoping for is the option to create a tap zone in the lower right corner to go back to the article list, and an option to have the nav bar at the bottom instead of at the top. I think with those two minor adjustments, I'd be happy.

10-17-2012, 02:09 PM	#1
weatherman Addict Posts: 385 Karma: 1010052 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: (previous: Kindle 2, Kindle Fire) Kindle 4 WiFi, K3K, KPW	Paperwhite Perodicals Navigation; Gestures My KPW finally arrived today, and I'm just on training wheels now so forgive me if this has been covered before. My biggest frustration with the KPW right now is the fact that navigating the New York Times (which I basically read cover-to-cover every day) is more cumbersome than on my old K3K. Getting back to the articles page requires using two hands and making multiple taps instead of a simple click of the d-pad. I'm really hoping there is some kind of "tap zone" setting or gesture that solves this problem, but from what I can tell there are only three gestures: swipe back a page, swipe forward a page and two-finger swipe left or right to increase or decrease font size. I'd like to see a lot more options for gestures and zones, but right now it's pretty limited. Or maybe I'm missing something?

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10-17-2012, 02:55 PM	#3
weatherman Addict Posts: 385 Karma: 1010052 Join Date: Apr 2008 Device: (previous: Kindle 2, Kindle Fire) Kindle 4 WiFi, K3K, KPW	Thanks - that's helpful. What I'm really hoping for is the option to create a tap zone in the lower right corner to go back to the article list, and an option to have the nav bar at the bottom instead of at the top. I think with those two minor adjustments, I'd be happy.

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