Smooth scrolling
 

How does one do a "smooth" scrolling with the N800?
I think this is crucial if one were to use it as an ebook. I find that the scroll buttons on the left upper corner of the device gives jerky scrolling.

Or is there an application that gives smooth scrolling when reading an ebook?

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fbreader scrolls one page at a time. I think it's the best way. OTOH, this doesn't answer your question, but it is the best ebook reader out there.

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I do wish that it has the smooth scrolling too. I've been using other ebook readers on my N80 (mobile phone), Palm PDA, WM5 PDA etc. So used to it, but I do prefer the N800's larger and sharper screen. Would be best if FBReader could do a smooth scroll as well...then all we need to do is to hold the N800 and read....wouldn't have to click on anything else.

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Oh, you mean auto-scrolling. No, FBReader doesn't do that...

Yet. It is on the planned features list:
http://only.mawhrin.net/fbreader/

and as the author is pretty frugal with updates, it might come sooner than you think. Just drop him a line on his page if you're really impatient about it.

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One thing to remember: different people mean different behaviour when they say "auto-scrolling". So if you decide to write about it (fbreader@googlegroups.com), please describe how you see the feature and what kind of parameters for the feature you see. That will greatly help to have the feature earlier than later.

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Hi Misha,

Thanks for the tip. I've joined the Google groups and left my suggestion with as much description as I could.

Luke

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Where can I get fbreader ? When I went to the Maemo applications listing, the install file is greyed out.

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lots of info here http://only.mawhrin.net/fbreader/

and a one click install for the N800 on this page http://only.mawhrin.net/fbreader/maemo/

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Thanks for the links Tabster. I got it now.

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May I add that I tried auto-scrolling on Palm's Ereader (back in the days when I was still a sucker for DRM-ed books that you were only allowed to read on the platform they chose to port their reader to) and didn't like it very much.

I found it impossible to get the scrolling speed right, but that's probably due to the fact that I have a weird reading style, alternating between speed-reading and sucking in the atmosphere really slowly. I also tend to jump back and forth a lot which, astonishingly, hasn't been translated into an auto-scroll pattern yet.