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Originally Posted by j.p.s
Buried inside the story of the dispute are a couple of data tidbits on how people read:
1. 20% of page turns are backward. (I've been assuming that I page back far more than average, but I doubt that for me it is over 20%.)
2. Enough people read in landscape to allegedly change the labels for the Voyage buttons from ">" and "<" to "|" and ".". (Too bad the buttons don't actually work in landscape on the currently shipping Voyage, according to all reports I've seen.)
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I noticed the 20 percent. I thought it was interesting. I rarely page back when I read fiction, but I will occasionally go back when reading non fiction. Maybe it's people paging back when they put the book down over night and want to refresh their memory on what's happening?