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by vidarh
3995 days ago
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> Fast/performant is another thing, but books must have a bifolia experience that flips comfortably at a soft reading pace. There is no doubt about that. I don't doubt that some like it, and that it's an important option to have, but likewise it is important to offer the ability to turn it off, or you will lose people like me that will outright refuse to deal with your books if I have to suffer through page flipping animations. I've discarded dozens (and this is not an exaggeration) e-book readers over page-flipping behaviour, because when dealing with e-books, page flipping behaviour is one of the most noticeable UI behaviours. I car about pretty much these things in an e-book reader: page-flipping behaviour, speed, text-zoom/reflow, ability to set contrast freely (including invert to light on black background), and well rendered/readable fonts. Everything else is secondary. Animations and interactivity can be fun, but a reader that fails on any of those items is a reader I'll never use. |
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A lot of experience of a book off bubblin depends on what code is written under it and how the author wants to present it. Inverting light/black, zoom, choosing fonts are all easy things to implement here, and those are some of the flexibilities the author has when choosing something for their book on bubblin.
Reflow is altogether another beast - I guess it is more useful for books with just plain text and images (lifeless). We're not focused on those type of books.
Also for some books reflow is simply a bad deal. For example the more technical ones suffer badly in the current fragmented ecosystem of book providers. I personally dislike it when our inability to scale fonts turns a 50 page book into a 100 page one for no fault of the writer or the reader.
There is much less control on the design aspect of content within a book and even lesser control on the size of the downloaded files there.
And btw, while we are at it, try the scaling potential of Viewport Width units for book. That does it here for my book!