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Old 07-19-2011, 01:57 PM   #1
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A scrolling ebook reader

Coming from Plucker on which I've read a ton of stuff, I'm annoyed by the paging rather than scrolling that most Android ebook readers seem to implement. Flipping a page mid-sentence is distracting, and you have to remember the beginning of the sentence, which occasionally requires flipping back. Pages are one of the limitations of pre-electronic books--we should be free of this limitation.

Moreover, scrolling is important to me because sometimes I want to focus on one particular part of the text, and then I like to slide it to the top of the screen, so I can easily see it as I think about it, without having to find it in the page after looking away or keeping a finger on it or being distracted by what came earlier. And it would be really annoying if a complex sentence were broken between pages and there was no continuous scrolling, since then one couldn't see the sentence as a whole. Moreover, scrolling enables finer tuning of bookmarks than just page-based ones, which can be useful.

None of this matters much at all for easy fiction in one's native language. But for complex or foreign-language (or both!) texts, it can matter quite a bit. I am a professional philosopher, so I have a bunch of complex ebooks.

So, is there an ebook reader that will give me the sort of experience I want?

Oh, and ideally open source. (And with Plucker support. But I can convert and/or add Plucker support, I guess, if I have to.)
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