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Originally Posted by Deskisamess
You only have to tap about ½" from the left edge to page forward, you don't have to swipe. I have small hands and can do that easily while holding the Paperwhite in my left hand.
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Which is exactly why tap zones should be customizable. If you are holding in right hand, then you cannot reach the tap zone to turn to previous page. I usually hold in my right hand.
Personally I’d prefer a symmetric arrangement that’s typically on phones and tablets, equally divided into 3 vertical zones, left, center, and right, where center brings up options. ‘Easy reach’ never really made sense to me, but at least there should be a mirror-image option available.
Other features I would like:
* Plain Old text-to-speech, with downloadable voices for non-English languages. Voice View is great if you need it, but for the rest of us it makes navigation very awkward. And even Voice View should have other languages available.
* Immersion reading: ability to listen to audiobook while viewing text. I don’t care if highlighting happens, just synchronize the page turns (or make highlighting optional, if it impacts power usage etc)
* gesture to adjust front light perhaps two finger swipe up and down
* gesture to quickly switch between recently opened books like task switching on iOS. Maybe two finger swipe left/right
* Ability to connect Bluetooth keyboards or simple page turn controllers, with keyboards, enable hotkeys for navigating to Home, bringing up TOC/XRay/Aa , selecting text etc. (when Kindles had physical keyboards, there were hotkeys! Bring ‘em back!)
The additional gestures could be turned off by default and enabled as ‘advanced’ features.