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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
Wouldn't it also require an accelerometer to really be useful? Without one, you would have to manually change back and forth between landscape and portrait modes.
I think adding landscape to the older readers would wind up causing more confusion than anything.
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For some. I pretty much always have my phone set to change manually. I find automatically changing between portrait and landscape one of the most annoying things. It takes one swipe and a tap to change the direction, and I rarely want to keep changing back and forth quickly. I just want it to stay the way I want it, no matter which side is "up" according to the accelerometer.
I can't imagine it would be any different with an ereader, in fact, I would find it even less useful for it to automatically change. Who changes the direction they are reading often enough to be annoying to change it manually? There are no buttons or asymmetry on older ereaders, so it doesn't need to adapt for when you switch hands, which is the only legitimate reason I can see that an accelerometer is necessary on the Forma.
It wouldn't have to be out and prominent. It could be hidden in the settings whether or not the option was available...then it could be in a similar position to where light settings are at the top. But until it gets turned on, it wouldn't have to be there at all, not exactly confusing, IMO.