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But picture books demand to be held, and the page-turn and your fingers are part of the story.
Archive 2009-08-01 Roger Sutton 2009
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Really, this is just a web-based variation on the page-turn panels.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Ideas for future articles… 2009
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But picture books demand to be held, and the page-turn and your fingers are part of the story.
Digital reviewing Roger Sutton 2009
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While turns could be initiated with a finger swipe across the screen, I preferred — and quite liked — the other page-turn option: You touch a finger in the right margin to advance pages and in the left margin to page back.
First impressions: The Barnes & Noble Nook Color e-book reader 2010
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Side by side with their predecessors, the improvements in contrast and type clarity were just noticeable, as was the shorter page-turn time for the Kindle — which Amazon claims is 20 percent faster.
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Its lack of physical page-turn buttons means you're limited to tapping the screen--which sometimes brings up a menu of viewing options instead.
Barnes & Noble NookColor review, with video Rob Pegoraro 2010
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However, page-turn performance may well be among the attributes that Pandigital is tweaking for the production version of the
First impressions: The Pandigital Novel 7-inch color e-book reader 2010
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As long as the page-turn analogy still follows the left-to-right pattern with a swipe gesture at the right-hand side of the screen towards the left, emulating flicking the page, that is probably appropriate.
Archive 2010-06-01 Stroppy Author 2010
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Based on the video, the page-turn navigation on the touchscreen (above) appears impressively fast.
The iPad as an e-book reader: Intriguing, but the story is incomplete 2010
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Though the screen could be more responsive, and requires harder pressure than an iPhone, for example, I quite like this page-turn method.
First impressions: The Sony Daily Edition e-book reader 2010
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