Also, Instapaper has a really cool "tilt to scroll" function. It is super handy while reading one handed...
https://www.instapaper.com/apps > On 10 Jun 2015, at 11:28, Hans-Christoph Steiner <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > 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] _______________________________________________ List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To unsubscribe, email: [email protected]
