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Originally Posted by JEMelby
The page flip speed only becomes an issue when I am scanning a reference document for a particular piece of information. The liniar nature of books which tell a story translate well to these devices. The random access nature of reference materiel make page flip speed a bigger issue.
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You are absolutely right, and this also becomes an issue when trying to find something in your own notes on the iLiad. We recognize what's on a page much faster than we can actually read it.
In the iLiad user's community, we're looking at thumbnail views to help with identifying and quickly navigating to a particular page, but that will only work if you've got some way to recognize the page, e.g. it's a chapter head, has a diagram, or you've seen it before and sort of recognize the shape of this text (which is quite common). It still won't provide the sort of page-flip interface I think most of us use when trying to quickly find information in a reference text. Even LCD screens can have trouble with that sort of refresh rate (well, maybe it's the screen drawing speed, not the LCD refresh rate, but you know what I mean).