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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
This is a feature I'd never use. My Kindle is set to factory defaults. I turn it on, read for awhile, then turn it off. To me, a Kindle is nothing more than an electronic paperback.
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Yeah, but with paperbacks you have the ability to stick your finger in the book and flip to another page. With Kindles pre-Page Flip, you couldn't do that, or at least not very easily, and if you bounced around with quick page-forward/back it would mess up the reading time estimates. The old Page Flip UI let you do that: the new one seems to give you some abilities you can't have with paper books, notably to, as it were, strip the pages out of the cover and look at more than one or two at once, from a distance.
This seems especially likely to be useful with textbooks and other factual works (those that will fit into a paperback form factor readably!) where there are often images that float to several pages away that you have to glance at and that sort of thing.
I guess this means a 5.8.2 is coming... (this wasn't in 5.8.1, was it?)