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frostschutz · 05-26-2012, 01:55 PM

eInk display technology is ill suited to scrolling, obviously.

But on a device that has real time display and touch technology it could be very natural to just scroll with your finger. On such a device, a reading app that does not support both paging and scrolling could be considered as lacking in features.

I like scrolling the way e.g. Firefox does it. You can scroll, or you can read page-wise like by hitting the space key. Hitting the space key makes it scroll down a "page" with a little overlap.

I could sometimes use the overlap on the ereader. I sometimes have to flip back a page to reread part of the sentence.

05-26-2012, 01:55 PM	#19
frostschutz Linux User Posts: 2,282 Karma: 6123806 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Heidelberg, Germany Device: none	eInk display technology is ill suited to scrolling, obviously. But on a device that has real time display and touch technology it could be very natural to just scroll with your finger. On such a device, a reading app that does not support both paging and scrolling could be considered as lacking in features. I like scrolling the way e.g. Firefox does it. You can scroll, or you can read page-wise like by hitting the space key. Hitting the space key makes it scroll down a "page" with a little overlap. I could sometimes use the overlap on the ereader. I sometimes have to flip back a page to reread part of the sentence.