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Originally Posted by elemenoP
Here is my weird issue, tell me if I am the only one, or if you can even follow this:
My Sony reader has touch turns and page turn buttons. There is no animation, unless you count the e-ink flash as a transition/animation (ha ha). The page turn button icons have < for back and > for forward. I match the touch turns to this: I swipe RIGHT to go forward and LEFT to go back. It would be confusing to have my swipes go one way, and my buttons go the other way. (and I do switch between buttons and swipes all the time.)
But the convention when reading on a phone or tablet is to swipe LEFT to go forward. This is due to page turn animations: you "pull" the page to the left to get to the next page. So I swipe one way on my reader, and the other way on my phone. Once in a blue moon, I get it wrong because I'm accustomed to reading on one or the other. I guess my next e-ink reader will most likely not have physical buttons, and I'm wondering if I would switch to using left swipe to go forward.
So, those of you with e-ink readers, and those of you with no animations, do you swipe left or right to page forward?
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I've always thought of swiping as panning as opposed to flipping pages. I imagine pages are laid out from left to right, and swipe left to drag the one on the right into view. I wonder if some Japanese feel it's unintuitive for that reason?