I'm a long time reader on digital devices (Palm!) and the scrolling in Android just sucks on almost all apps. A good reading app provides a dead simple way to turn "pages". Manually scrolling is a terrible experience because it requires focusing on a tricky physical task. It requires much more focus than turning a book page (maybe that's because I'm 41 and grew up reading books ;).
Both Kindle and Google Books on Android provide a simple double-tap to turn the page, for example. That is pretty good, but it still requires aiming on a small target on the screen. I'm a big fan of Courier's side scrolling, it just takes a simple flick left or right anywhere on the reading area. Apparently, some people get confused by the side scrolling. I just was trying out Al Jazeera Magazine app, and they have found a nice compromise: it scrolls vertically, but page by page. And turning the page is done with a quick flick up or down. Quite nice: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aljazeera.ajemag.andro .hc -- PGP fingerprint: 5E61 C878 0F86 295C E17D 8677 9F0F E587 374B BE81 https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x9F0FE587374BBE81 _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
