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Ripplinger · 02-02-2011, 01:23 PM

I haven't had that problem at all when swiping to turn pages and just grabbed my 350 now to see how exactly how I do it. To advance pages forward, the movement I set it to is from right to left, just how you would turn a page. Since my thumb is usually resting near the right edge of the screen, it usually starts the swipe in the margin, so I'm usually nowhere near able to accidentally touch any words, then my thumb lazily moves diagonally downward, and it's really a minimal movement. If you have your page advances set to the opposite movement, left to right, I can see how a "heavy-handed" thumb might do a slight tap first before a swipe.

I don't have the problem swiping the opposite way either though, from within the text and left to right, and I still don't grab words to bring up the dictionary instead, it always is a clean swipe for me, movement again is diagonally just from bottom left to upper right. All I can guess is that you're doing a very slight touch first, then swipe, instead of just the swipe. It's really very sensitive and requires just the lightest of touches for me to advance the pages and you can easily do an accidental tap first even with a finger twitch.

02-02-2011, 01:23 PM	#8
Ripplinger 350 Hoarder Posts: 3,574 Karma: 8281267 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Midwest USA Device: Sony PRS-350, Kobo Glo & Glo HD, PW2	I haven't had that problem at all when swiping to turn pages and just grabbed my 350 now to see how exactly how I do it. To advance pages forward, the movement I set it to is from right to left, just how you would turn a page. Since my thumb is usually resting near the right edge of the screen, it usually starts the swipe in the margin, so I'm usually nowhere near able to accidentally touch any words, then my thumb lazily moves diagonally downward, and it's really a minimal movement. If you have your page advances set to the opposite movement, left to right, I can see how a "heavy-handed" thumb might do a slight tap first before a swipe. I don't have the problem swiping the opposite way either though, from within the text and left to right, and I still don't grab words to bring up the dictionary instead, it always is a clean swipe for me, movement again is diagonally just from bottom left to upper right. All I can guess is that you're doing a very slight touch first, then swipe, instead of just the swipe. It's really very sensitive and requires just the lightest of touches for me to advance the pages and you can easily do an accidental tap first even with a finger twitch.