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Originally Posted by Xennex1170
Unfortunately dragging a bookcover is a lot more processor intensive than you might think at first. I would imagine it would involve moving an image 'layer' containing the bookcover you want to move (in one of 5 sizes to boot) and constantly refreshing the bottom display 'layer' as you drag so that you don't end up just erasing everything in the path of the drag while moving the bookcover 'layer'. In comparison the PDF is moved on a single 'layer' that refreshes areas newly 'displayed'. If you have another concept for implementing that function it would be interesting to hear.
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No, I can't speculate about such a thing without knowing more details about the specific hardware, and to me the whole point is very moot anyway. I think we should be avoiding the need to do dragging as much as possible; it is never going to be that good on this hardware. (Take a look at the tetris game for example of attempts to move a small object and refresh nicely in real time).
Hence my request (the whole point of my original post) to make a reasonable tap-page-to-advance command for pdfs in zoomed landscape mode which requires no dragging. To do this is not something requiring any specialized aspects of this hardware at all and I believe it would improve the Kobo Touch immensely for lots of people trying to read pdf books.