Thread: Buttons are not an eBook navigation method
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Old 08-31-2009, 04:15 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo View Post
In addition to buttons (including rockers) and the current touch-swipe page-flip method, what could be an interesting new direction for navigation function? Scroll wheels? Trackballs? MacBook Wheel?
A touchpad that facilitates the swipe-style of page turning. Albeit the low-refresh rate of eInk does not yet make the whole swiping practical...

... the holy grail of swipe page turning would be visual feedback that gave some of the benefits of "flipping through pages" trying to find something at a glance. Part of me wonders whether that's possible at all though.

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