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I really enjoy reading and will be nostalgic about physical books. I also really like my kindle. For fiction reading I have not found it's match. But for non-fi

by Dn_Ab 15y ago

I really enjoy reading and will be nostalgic about physical books. I also really like my kindle. For fiction reading I have not found it's match. But for non-fiction there is a UX feature where physical books currently dominate any book reader I've tried (laptop, tablet, kindle, smartphone). Flipping to the index or table of contents, keeping a pen or finger in another page and flipping back and forth. Once that is figured out I will be a complete convert and stop preferring physical books.

chc 15y ago
Set a bookmark (one tap on my Nook), go to the table of contents, choose another page, return to your bookmark whenever you feel like it.
- smokinn 15y ago
  It needs to be much much simpler than that. What would be nice would be gestures. Maybe tap once, make a gesture and it remembers that gesture as a bookmark to that location. Later, make a line and the same gesture and it heads to that bookmark. This way you can be looking at a chart, tap and make a number one. Head a few pages or another chapter down, tap and make a number two, a line and number one to look at the chart again and a line and a number two to head back where you were. Or maybe a standard "back" gesture. Pressing multiple buttons and following many links is nowhere near friendly enough. The gestures suggestion above still only works if you know you're going to be returning to a location when you get to it. Flipping through the book to quickly find a past location is a harder problem to solve.
  - Herring 15y ago
    >Flipping through the book to quickly find a past location is a harder problem to solve. iBooks has an 'overview' mode that sort of works if the book is well marked up. However it's not nearly as good as flipping, & the processor needs to be much faster. http://ipadwatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ibooks-pdf-bookmarks.png http://ipadwatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ibooks-pdf...
  - chc 15y ago
    You're saying that it's harder to tap once to make a bookmark, twice to bring up the table of contents and once to select a new page than it is to stick your finger in a book, use the rest of your fingers to flip until you find the table of contents, note the page number and then flip through again without moving the finger you're holding in the book until you find the page you were looking for? I don't know what to say except that is very much not my experience.

by Dn_Ab 15y ago

chc 15y ago

Set a bookmark (one tap on my Nook), go to the table of contents, choose another page, return to your bookmark whenever you feel like it.

smokinn 15y ago
It needs to be much much simpler than that. What would be nice would be gestures. Maybe tap once, make a gesture and it remembers that gesture as a bookmark to that location. Later, make a line and the same gesture and it heads to that bookmark. This way you can be looking at a chart, tap and make a number one. Head a few pages or another chapter down, tap and make a number two, a line and number one to look at the chart again and a line and a number two to head back where you were. Or maybe a standard "back" gesture. Pressing multiple buttons and following many links is nowhere near friendly enough. The gestures suggestion above still only works if you know you're going to be returning to a location when you get to it. Flipping through the book to quickly find a past location is a harder problem to solve.
- Herring 15y ago
  >Flipping through the book to quickly find a past location is a harder problem to solve. iBooks has an 'overview' mode that sort of works if the book is well marked up. However it's not nearly as good as flipping, & the processor needs to be much faster. http://ipadwatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ibooks-pdf-bookmarks.png http://ipadwatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ibooks-pdf...
- chc 15y ago
  You're saying that it's harder to tap once to make a bookmark, twice to bring up the table of contents and once to select a new page than it is to stick your finger in a book, use the rest of your fingers to flip until you find the table of contents, note the page number and then flip through again without moving the finger you're holding in the book until you find the page you were looking for? I don't know what to say except that is very much not my experience.