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Originally Posted by joshn53 View Post
jmc8501, thanks for the feedback. Some questions:
- What do you mean by "unstable" scrolling?
- Are there specific places where the reader feels laggy?

The idea behind Katana is that it's "infinite-scroll" - i.e. you can scroll forever. Having to stop at the end of a book doesn't fit in with that, and I'm planning to remove that limitation. So, with infinite scroll, scrollbars don't really make sense.

You can actually use the volume rocker to page up/down. This is especially nice in portrait mode, because you can hold the phone in your right hand and your thumb falls right on the rocker. That's the way that I use Katana 90% of the time.

Hope that helps!
Ok, an infinite scroll would certainly preclude scroll bars, so that's fine. And the volume rocker as page turn is really nice

The buggy scrolling isn't within the actual reader, but only when installing bibles - it's the sensitivity that makes it react badly to input. For instance, scrolling slowly will not move a lot, but a bit more quickly and it will jump all over the place. Also, I recommend that the text wraps here as opposed to allowing horizontal scrolling.

The lag issue happens towards the end of a scroll, or after scrolling more than just a few pages. But I was mostly referring to a lag when opening the menus or settings, etc. (especially the first time, where it is very noticeable).