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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
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.
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I use Calibre mostly on my laptop with no mouse.
That aside, the problem with gestures is that you can't control the scroll speed as precisely as you could with the old scrollbar (I could move in tiny increments, slowly scroll the whole book through or scroll quickly forward and back.) It's the same problem with keyboard arrows - can't really control the speed. That's a deal-breaker for my workflow.