+1 to Instapaper. They also allow both long scrolling and page swiping. I imagine that's a pretty significant effort to get working well in all three of those scenarios.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 12:27 PM, noel hidalgo | gProject < [email protected]> wrote: > 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] >
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