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Originally Posted by driesie
I dream of frameless, uncluttered full-screen eBook text with no visible computer or eBook controls.
In my dream I do not see text displayed on a glaring white background but graphic art at its best: a delicately textured off-white background, the gutter simulated by darker shades of off-white, the edges of the pages fuzzy lines simulating the edges of an open book.
Can you visualize what I see in my dream: how the softly rounded gutter and sloping page edges create the illusion an open 3d eBook?
I do not see ugly plain text on a flat, white computer screen or eBook text squashed into a tight frame of any kind. All I see in my dream is the pages of a real open book waiting to be read.
For my laptop there's an option to view ebooks in single or double page format. The single page display works for my smartphone too and a rounded darker shade of grey around the text creates a 3d effect, it’s as if the single page floats above the screen.
Here too there's nothing to click, not even a single button.
To turn a page I hover the curser for milliseconds in the lower right corner of the display. The text changes and I read on.
To return to a previous page I hover the cursor in the lower left corner of the display and I'm back where I was.
Whenever needed, I hover the cursor in say the top left corner and a narrow vertical panel containing all eBook controls slide out. I select the function I need, things happen, the panel slides back and I'm back where I left my eBook dream world.
The word is out: eBooks are slower to read than paper books.
Everybody needs to sit back and ask a simple question.
Why?
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My 'dream' ereader will come with a bevy of boobalicious babes, each slavering for the right to work hard, earn money and be instantly available to read the ebooks to me. I'll settle for nothing less!
Derek