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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
But there's an art to learning to anticipate how many words beforehand to hit that "next Page" button so the reading experience continues without breaks in the continuity that only comes through experience. As we become more familiar with the speed at which page turning occurs after the button is pressed, compensating for any delay becomes second nature. Someone experienced with their e-reader will naturally out-perform someone who has merely been trained in its use for the sake of an experiment, all other things being equal.
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That's actually a great point, which I had not considered previously. I guess because page turning has become so natural when reading paper books, that I hardly even consider that there is actually some processing involved to time the page turn at just the right moment. It's become something that happens subconsciously in the background for most readers. But of course, this needs to also happen for eReaders as well. Although I suspect there is less an art in this case because it is completely about timing, less about maneuvering fingers over the page edges in just the right way and preparing for the turn, etc.