“Customer research shows that digital natives have low attention spans, so we introduced a persistent reminder of the title of the book they are reading in between page slides.”
This happens to me, too! If I read a physical book I can easily recall the author and the title months and even years later. But when I read digital books I often struggle to remember a book’s name and have to look it up if I want to recommend it to someone.
My guess is it's mostly because the physical book's cover's always visible in your environment, even when you're not reading, so you see the title and author's name a lot more. Some e-readers put the cover on when in sleep mode, but that's small, black-n-white, only on one side (no spine) so it's easily covered up, et c.
Books also often put some or all of that info at the top of every page or every other page, while many reader apps hide it most of the time, I suppose to save space for body text.
OneAd free Kindles (can) display the cover of the book you're currently reading during idle mode. I love it because I used to leave a book on a coffee table or my desk as a kind of physical invitation to read (instead of watching TV or playing video games or derping on my phone).
Such a tiny feature, but since I've turned it on it has nudged me to read hours more each week.
It feels like I was looking at a pile of cards, and then magical scissors cut a window out of the top one just before it moves.
But then the window doesn't move with the card that it was cut from, so I realize I was mistaken. There is no window or magical scissors. Instead, I have momentarily acquired x-ray vision but it only works on part of the card.
also annoying how when you "sample" a book the title of the book is displayed over every single page. certainly makes me want to buy it just to get rid of that annoying view... the update just sucks.
I like it. Not only do I think it looks pretty nice, it makes sense visually since it would be weird to scroll away the book title only to scroll it back in for the next page.
It would look a lot less jarring if the underlying body text didn’t move as well. Even in digital media, animations still work best when they model the physical world, which our brains evolved to understand. This is why even simple transitions look best when using spring physics vs linear easing functions.
This new animation breaks even the basic the mental model of a “page”. If the goal is to do away with skeuomorphism, I’d much rather have a simple push/slide animation without any shadow or fancy transition . Want the title permanently in view, put it in a top bar or floating element.
