| > Except that Kindle isn't any of those. Neither fast, nor smooth Maybe that's true on iOS. On my phone (Android), it's the only reader I've found that I consider tolerable for most uses. It's not by any means perfect, but of the dozens of alternatives I've tested, it's the one that annoys me the least. > Page-flips are an important experience of books, even iBooks has it! And I like it that way. You may think so, I don't, and I won't ever agree with you on that. For my part I simply don't use readers that force it on me. Either they have the option to disable it, or I won't use it. > I'm afraid that is not your decision to make. It's an opinion, not a decision. > It is absolutely necessary and does good for the children to move beyond stuck up books that are locked in time and technology of 15 years ago. I agree, which I why I find it annoying to deal with readers that insist on trying to mimic even older technology in all kinds of ways that introduce artificial restrictions on a medium that does not need them. Case in point: It's simply not possible to offer proper zoom support without text-reflow, at which point the page-layout oriented UI falls apart. |