Calibre 4 Reader - KB Only?

[AnotherCat]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I use Calibre mostly on my laptop with no mouse.

That aside, the problem with gestures is that you can't control the scroll speed as precisely as you could with the old scrollbar (I could move in tiny increments, slowly scroll the whole book through or scroll quickly forward and back.) It's the same problem with keyboard arrows - can't really control the speed. That's a deal-breaker for my workflow.

Which do you find easiest to use for fast navigation from one place to another in an ebook - a horizontal or a vertical scroll bar?

As a bit of background, we tend to get conditioned to vertical scrolling because that is how web browsers work and for the presentation of the type of information we read with them (forums, company web sites, etc.) it is appropriate as the read material is "list" oriented. But, for example, because vertical mouse movements involve a whole arm movement I, like many people, use the mouse wheel in browsers more often then the vertical scroll bar except when a long scroll is needed.

Pbooks are paged horizontally and again this is more convenient for most people than vertical - people generally struggle with likes of top bound pads, for example, as apart from holding issues (e.g. the top half of the pad wants to fall back behind or forward over the read page due to gravity) changing pages with top bound is a whole arm motion rather than just a forearm one.

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by AnotherCat

Which do you find easiest to use for fast navigation from one place to another in an ebook - a horizontal or a vertical scroll bar?

As a bit of background, we tend to get conditioned to vertical scrolling because that is how web browsers work and for the presentation of the type of information we read with them (forums, company web sites, etc.) it is appropriate as the read material is "list" oriented. But, for example, because vertical mouse movements involve a whole arm movement I, like many people, use the mouse wheel in browsers more often then the vertical scroll bar except when a long scroll is needed.

Pbooks are paged horizontally and again this is more convenient for most people than vertical - people generally struggle with likes of top bound pads, for example, as apart from holding issues (e.g. the top half of the pad wants to fall back behind or forward over the read page due to gravity) changing pages with top bound is a whole arm motion rather than just a forearm one.

I would have no issues with a horizontal scrollbar. As long as it's a proper scrollbar and not just a touchscreen, touchpad or mouse gesture. And no, I would have no issues with it being hidden by default either.

[AnotherCat]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

I would have no issues with a horizontal scrollbar. As long as it's a proper scrollbar and not just a touchscreen, touchpad or mouse gesture. And no, I would have no issues with it being hidden by default either.

Thanks for the response.