As my last experiment for the day I took what I learned from porting x48 and mrxvt to the iLiad and applied it to create my version 5 of ipdf.
I'm calling it the Bionic ipdf because it outperforms the Sony Reader on page turn speed. Its so fast you'll think Steve Austin himself is flipping pages for you.
The major experiment? What would happen if I did dmQTyping instead of dmQFull between pages?
Sure enough, getting rid of the black flash means you get faster page turns with a cool Matrix'y effect as the glyphs tumble into place on the e-Ink display. Plus if you encounter a Sony Reader user you can kick sand all over their Sony Reader by showing just how much faster your larger display can flip pages.
The ghost is very faint and frankly I find the black flash more visually annoying so I'd prefer to have an option to select this mode. In addition, not doing the black flash has to be saving power on page flips... so this could also be called the "EcoMode".
Please try it and tell me what
you think.