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Originally Posted by Sirtel
I suspect that most of those who miss the scrollbar didn't use it for reading a novel from beginning to end with vertical scroll. I know I didn't. It was essential for quick overview and for checking the layout and formatting (which I do with every book I purchase), though. For just reading I used the paging.
Not everyone used the viewer just for reading. When one wanted to check for various things in a book, it was often more efficient and faster to have the controls and the scrollbar at hand.
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Yes, but my post very specifically referred to a
vertical scroll bar and using
vertical scrolling, as implemented on the previous versions of the reader.
Moving on, the usual practice is to have a horizontal scroll bar that becomes visible with a touch action or right mouse click. A horizontal bar matches the usual horizontal paging of devices and apps, and matches the easier (for most people) making of horizontal gestures on touch screen or horizontal mouse movements. It is easy to see this with a mouse, for most people sweeping a mouse from side to side is easier than an up and down movement - side to side just involves moving the forearm, whereas up and down involves the whole arm.
I have no personal use problem with a scroll bar being added as long as it is not permanently visible, and I would have thought the solution of a horizontal scroll bar that can be made to appear/disappear with a touch or mouse click as is common in other reading apps/applications for fast navigation through a book would be ideal.