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#6
Hah! I never realized that if you hold the down key it scrolls. However, the scrolling speed is very fast...almost like pressing a Page Down key. I would find it more useful to have the ability to disable "skip to next link/button" and define a number of lines to scroll, like you can do with a mouse wheel.

Navigating from link to link is not useful when reading longer articles in the reader...in the RSS Reader it tends to move from the top of the article to the bottom, skipping everything. It also drive me nuts when I use a combination of screen scrolling and the buttons...the buttons are not aware of my current viewing position, but rather some kind of invisible cursor. So if I scroll a few pages down via a screen drag, read, and then try to use the hardware button to move to the next article, it jumps me BACK several pages. Ack! Plus I'd love to map the center select key to toggle the RSS Channel sidebar. It currently does nothing in that app, and the standard size of those statusbar icons is too small for comfortable finger access.

The most glaring UI omission of them all is the horrific navigation of Acrobat. Not moving to the next page in a PDF automatically while scrolling is profoundly disappointing, and completely kills the usability imho. Every other PDF reader I've used in any platform is smart enough to know to jump to the next page. It's mind boggling how this was left out. Did the developers even TRY to use the app?