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Old 03-16-2014, 04:08 PM   #4
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Device: Nook Simple Touch→Kobo Aura HD
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Originally Posted by arspr View Post
Nevertheless, it could be clearly improved. The easiest way: instead of going to the upper left corner:
+ Keeping the horizontal position. So if you had zoomed to "kill" the margins you would not need to pan the new page in order to "center" your text again on each page turn.
+ Instead of always, (I mean when fixed in landscape of course), going to the upper part of the new page, only doing that when advancing to the next page. When returning to the previous one the logical position is the bottom of the page.

Easy changes but I seriously doubt about Kobo crew...
Yeah, your suggestions make sense. Actually I think panning on the Aura HD is pretty fluid for an e-reader, but little improvement would go a long way. For instance, I read screenplays in PDFs at exactly 150% zoom: that ratio is one tap away and anything smaller would make the text hard to read. Which is all very fine, but at that zoom the text barely fits so I have to be very precise every time I pan a page. Keeping horizontal pan would definitely help.

I wonder if that's been posted to the firmware suggestions thread.
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