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Originally Posted by BetterRed
How is it cleaner ?
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New on the left, old on right (scroll bar) with controls hidden (Ctrl+F11)
And when they were shown, the controls didn't obscure the text.
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I'm not being critical, but I don't see how the new viewer has a cleaner user interface, just a different one. And it's dropped a couple of features Print to PDF and support for cover-free books.
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The vertical scroll bar is just clutter as far as I am concerned - has been a while since I played with the old reader (I preferred and used others) but seem to recall removing the scroll bar was not an option (may be corrected on that).
Am actually surprised that many still read with vertical scroll given I would have thought they would have become used to the app horizontal paging behaviours on tablets/phones/ereaders. I gave up vertical scrolling somewhere back around 100BCE (some of what I read then has since been found in caves), well sometime before the conveniences of computer mice, PDAs, tablets and ereaders were bestowed upon us it seems about 2,000 years ago
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I don't read with the controls displayed so they never clutter the text for me.
The old controls looked like something out of a 3 year old's hieroglyphic learner reader toy to me. Plus big and clunky.
Regarding features. I just use a reader for reading books so clean with no gizmos. Print to PDF and support for cover free books within the reader, nor any other such plaything gizmos in it are of any use to me, just feature clutter.
Have only had a little play with the new one so far, maybe more tidy like aspects will come apparent to me.
So, the new one is cleaner for me; like all these things each has personal views on such matters. A bit like art.