This reminds me a lot of the attempts to replace QWERTY. A familiar UI is more important than a good UI. (see also: 8, Windows).
I want the world to scroll this way
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#102I was born with pretty severe strabismus and underwent a few major eye surgeries throughout my life. One of the side effects of being born with this condition is missing lines when reading a book. Growing up with computers, I always found it a little difficult to follow long lines of text or the next line as I scroll. I'm a lot older now and hardly have these problems, if ever at all. I've pretty much perfected guess…
Try this:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beeline-reader/lca...
It color codes lines aiming to solve missing or loosing your place while reading.
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#103Scroll speed seems fast compared to everything else I do. I have max scroll speed on OS X. It would be good to be able to adjust the reader's speed.
Neat idea.
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#104If you could do this to pdf, I might be willing to pay little for it.
pdf is not reflowable. So I don't think it's possible while still adhering to the pdf standard.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
"You'll get used to it" can quickly becomes a lazy excuse for many bad experimentations in interaction design, but in this case I really think this is the right answer. At first, I found it disturbing as hell, and the implementation could be better (for instance, with a margin between the two pages, in addition to the black line), but this is really an interesting and promising answer to the pagination/scroll debate.
Like, you'll get used to inverted scroll in Mountain Lion? Innovation takes getting used to, evolution doesn't.
Eh, I hate it, personally. It's the first thing I disable when installing Mountain Lion.
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#106First off, I don't share the sentiment that "it's hard to read on the web". I'm doing just fine. The only time I grumble is when text reflow fails or I have to go through n pages to read an article.
Static "newspaper" text is a neat idea and we already have this functionality - page turn. But marrying it with scrolling is confusing. I just don't see an advantage here.
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#107Wow, this is brilliant! If you can package it into a js library I'd love to use it on my blog!
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#108Very cool idea!
I use and when reading the web; paging up/down is more comfortable for me than scrolling.
Kindle is also excellent for reading because it uses distinct pages. I set my text large and columns narrow, then it's easy to speed-read by scanning my eyes down. It results in many more page turns, but it results in faster reading and less strain.
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#109This reminds me a lot of the attempts to replace QWERTY. A familiar UI is more important than a good UI. (see also: 8, Windows).
This is a lot easier to learn than dvorak.
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#110I really like it. I'd rather not see the previous page underneath though, the first page doesn't have this(only white space) and it seems far more natural.