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I dislike skeuomorphism as done on the current generation of e-ink readers and tablet applications.
I do not like having to swipe pages, I detest fake curling pageturns, I strongly dislike seeing fake book-edge. Do not get me started on tacky wooden shelves on display. Grrrrrrr!!! Phew!!!
I do like effects - like spinning desktop cube when switching Linux desktops, because it makes easier for me to remember spatially what window is on what screen. I love wobbly windows and tastefully done window minimizing / maximizing animations, I like when icons on a well configured Android device behave as if the swiping motion had some mass and momentum.
Effects on a reading device or application irritate me.
I do not understand why Kindle offers only following three page margin choices:
- very wide
- extremely wide
- ridiculously wide.
This is an e-ink display, NOT a physical page! I want to use all the page to display text. There is bezel on the device that works like [paper] page margin. 5 pixel margin is just great on my other reader.
If you really want to do skeuomorphism, why don't you try to use real typography, instead of that awful fully justified text with wide margins and no hyphenation?
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