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Old 09-19-2007, 05:18 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by igorsk View Post
I tried reading on iPhone. Without hardware buttons to scroll it's extremely awkward. Swiping the screen to scroll looks very cool until you have to do it for an hour or more. So, I don't see iPhone as a reading platform unless they add some buttons. (I guess a third-party reading software could try to intercept volume buttons... that might work.)
My p-books don't have any buttons. And I read tomes, not scrolls.

Scrolling is the wrong design paradigm to use. One shouldn't swipe the screen to scroll down the page. One should swipe the screen to turn the page.

Were you using Safari to read? How does Books.app work?
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