Thread: Use volume +/- keys for paging in Kindle and Overdrive
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Old 08-25-2011, 09:44 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by yelloguy View Post
I can see the benefit. Unfortunately, the volume keys on my device (Nook Color) are clunky and not precise at all. Sometimes when I press the Vol- ONCE it take me all the way to the bottom of the page in the browser as if I have held it down for long. Due to that I have eschewed the use of Vol keys for paging. It is a little jarring to lose your position when you are reading.

But I can see on another device I would definitely switch to using Vol keys for paging.
That's because volume keys auto-repeat quite fast. The 1.0.7 version of my input method doesn't auto-repeat at all with the volume keys, at least in Overdrive and Kindle, and thereby solves the problem. I would hope that all ebook readers that use volume keys do that. Certainly the APV PDF viewer does. :-)
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