how does swiping work up and down on the 350?

bluerfoot · 11-10-2010, 02:29 PM

Well I am a little sad. I went into bestbuy and checked out the 350 and loved the size weight and touch. However I could not figure out swiping...sometimes swiping up took me forward, simetimes backward. I then looked under options (whatever it was called) and only saw options to set left and right page turn options. Oh man swiping up and down takes no effort but for m side to side is unnatural and a pain. Btw the only "book" I could test on was the lisencing agreement.

So am I missing something? Can swiping up and down work simply for page turns and for the nice swipe and hold for multi page turns that I saw?

elcreative · 11-10-2010, 02:59 PM

It's side-to-side but that includes a diagonal motion and it can be a very short action... If any form of sideways action is out of the question then I think you may be out of luck. My thumbs are increasingly arthritic but I don't find a diagonal swipe a problem...

bluerfoot · 11-10-2010, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by elcreative

It's side-to-side but that includes a diagonal motion and it can be a very short action... If any form of sideways action is out of the question then I think you may be out of luck. My thumbs are increasingly arthritic but I don't find a diagonal swipe a problem...

Thanks for the reponse...ok well undoubtedly up and down do something? there is no question that at times it was moving me forward and other times back....off topic, but after 5 minutes, I know know that 5 inches is the size I want and that I will never use a device that makes me fiddle with buttons again...I wish I had not bought like $250 worth of technical books for my kindle dx...never again will I get locked into something like amazon's proprietary format...

doreenjoy · 11-10-2010, 04:03 PM

From what I can tell, up and down do nothing. If you put the tiniest slant on the up/down swipe, the Reader interprets it as a left or right swipe.

It's not like an iPhone where you scroll pages -- it's a reader, where you turn discrete pages.

Hope that helps.

grooks · 11-10-2010, 05:08 PM

Swiping down is page backward and swiping up is page forward. When using the up and down swipe you must be very accurate as any deviation towards the diagonal may have the opposite affect from what you intended. Due to the sensitivity (and to avoid frustration) I would stick with a left/right or diagonal motion for turning pages.

SeaBookGuy · 11-10-2010, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by grooks

Swiping down is page backward and swiping up is page forward. When using the up and down swipe you must be very accurate as any deviation towards the diagonal may have the opposite affect from what you intended. Due to the sensitivity (and to avoid frustration) I would stick with a left/right or diagonal motion for turning pages.

I believe the direction is (can be) set by the user as an option - I'm right handed, with down (left) as forward and up (right) as back. It only has to be slightly diagonal, by a few degrees, for the swipe to work, not necessarily straight across. Too vertical a swipe results in nothing happening (the circle with line through it - "invalid action" - appears instead).

bluerfoot · 11-10-2010, 10:16 PM

well for sure there (as far as I could tell looking at the options) only a left and right official option. so perhaps my up and down were actually just poor left and rights. Hmm surprised that you can't set it to up and down. Regardless the touch weight and size really make me not want a kindle...

digital_steve · 11-10-2010, 10:19 PM

Up and down are official options as well... it's there for landscape use
Turn your device over and a flick up in portait is a flick left.
That is why it works that way in my assumption.

I often use a diagonal or up and down motion, depending on how i'm sitting/laying and holding the device.

In short, up and down work fine

SeaBookGuy · 11-10-2010, 10:31 PM

I never thought I'd be using the backwards feature, but the device can be so sensitive I do occasionally over-advance.

mediax · 11-11-2010, 07:34 AM

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Originally Posted by bluerfoot

...I wish I had not bought like $250 worth of technical books for my kindle dx...never again will I get locked into something like amazon's proprietary format...

If you liberate the books from any DRM, you should be able to convert them with Calibre.

bluerfoot · 11-11-2010, 09:35 AM

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Originally Posted by mediax

If you liberate the books from any DRM, you should be able to convert them with Calibre.

Thanks, is there a quality drop when you do this? also...can someone say once and for all since I am getting different feedback here....does swiping up and down work or is it just left and right?

SeaBookGuy · 11-11-2010, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by bluerfoot

Thanks, is there a quality drop when you do this? also...can someone say once and for all since I am getting different feedback here....does swiping up and down work or is it just left and right?

If anything de-cryted (liberated) books read better.

I believe it's left - right only.

bluerfoot · 11-11-2010, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

If anything de-cryted (liberated) books read better.

I believe it's left - right only.

I guess this is probably for another thread but just to confirm them, I can take all my kindle books and get them into ebub that can be read on the sony? Do I somehow drag the books from the kindle back to my (linux) pc and then run them through calibre, then put them into the sony?

bluerfoot · 11-11-2010, 11:57 AM

By the way I can't emphasize enough how much I want the ebub format as opposed to epub...

stodge · 11-11-2010, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by SeaBookGuy

If anything de-cryted (liberated) books read better.

I believe it's left - right only.

Read better? What do you mean?

11-10-2010, 02:29 PM	#1
bluerfoot Zealot Posts: 115 Karma: 42554 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: sony pocketbook 350	how does swiping work up and down on the 350? Well I am a little sad. I went into bestbuy and checked out the 350 and loved the size weight and touch. However I could not figure out swiping...sometimes swiping up took me forward, simetimes backward. I then looked under options (whatever it was called) and only saw options to set left and right page turn options. Oh man swiping up and down takes no effort but for m side to side is unnatural and a pain. Btw the only "book" I could test on was the lisencing agreement. So am I missing something? Can swiping up and down work simply for page turns and for the nice swipe and hold for multi page turns that I saw?

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elcreative Wizard Posts: 2,888 Karma: 5875940 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: PRS505, 600, 350, 650, Nexus 7, Note III, iPad 4 etc	It's side-to-side but that includes a diagonal motion and it can be a very short action... If any form of sideways action is out of the question then I think you may be out of luck. My thumbs are increasingly arthritic but I don't find a diagonal swipe a problem...

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doreenjoy 01000100 01001010 Posts: 1,889 Karma: 2400000 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Polyamorous	From what I can tell, up and down do nothing. If you put the tiniest slant on the up/down swipe, the Reader interprets it as a left or right swipe. It's not like an iPhone where you scroll pages -- it's a reader, where you turn discrete pages. Hope that helps.

11-10-2010, 05:08 PM	#5
grooks Wizard Posts: 1,326 Karma: 30250 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Fort Myers, FL Device: Pocketbook Era, Kobo Forma	Swiping down is page backward and swiping up is page forward. When using the up and down swipe you must be very accurate as any deviation towards the diagonal may have the opposite affect from what you intended. Due to the sensitivity (and to avoid frustration) I would stick with a left/right or diagonal motion for turning pages.

11-10-2010, 10:16 PM	#7
bluerfoot Zealot Posts: 115 Karma: 42554 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: sony pocketbook 350	well for sure there (as far as I could tell looking at the options) only a left and right official option. so perhaps my up and down were actually just poor left and rights. Hmm surprised that you can't set it to up and down. Regardless the touch weight and size really make me not want a kindle...

11-10-2010, 10:19 PM	#8
digital_steve Muppet Posts: 240 Karma: 442 Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Tasmania Device: Kobo Aura HD, Sony PRS-650	Up and down are official options as well... it's there for landscape use Turn your device over and a flick up in portait is a flick left. That is why it works that way in my assumption. I often use a diagonal or up and down motion, depending on how i'm sitting/laying and holding the device. In short, up and down work fine

11-10-2010, 10:31 PM	#9
SeaBookGuy Can one read too much? Posts: 2,029 Karma: 2487799 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Naples, FL Device: Kindle PW 3, Sony 350 and 650	I never thought I'd be using the backwards feature, but the device can be so sensitive I do occasionally over-advance.

11-11-2010, 11:57 AM	#14
bluerfoot Zealot Posts: 115 Karma: 42554 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: sony pocketbook 350	By the way I can't emphasize enough how much I want the ebub format as opposed to epub...