Page Flip automatically saves the page you’re reading in a book, pinning it to the side of your screen for easy navigation. It acts like a virtual thumb where you can save the current place in the book and quickly browse through the remaining pages to get what you are looking for. It can prove to be a chore for them to navigate back to the page they were on after flipping ahead. This way, you can quickly recognize specific pages, especially those with pictures, charts, or your own highlights, and then jump right to the correct location. At launch, Amazon says PageFlip is available “on millions of books”, with plans to continuously add new entries “every day”.
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Kindle e-readers and apps will be updated with the Page Flip feature starting Tuesday. In addition to the pinned page, the e-reader experience includes the ability to close out of the Page Flip overlay to return to the text on the page.
“As an author, I love knowing that my work is presented with fluid clarity, freeing my readers from the page shuffling that can cloud and spoil the narrative”, said Laura Hillenbrand, best-selling author of Unbroken.
Need to find that one other passage or picture in a book but find it hard to do with an e-reader?
Page Flip will be rolling out soon as a free update for Amazon’s Kindle apps and products. Compatible books will be marked “Page Flip: Enabled” in the features list. Now Amazon has a new feature that helps address that shortcoming of eBooks.
“We take it very, very seriously, that we’re moving the reading experience forward”, said Mike Torres, Amazon Kindle director, during a recent demonstration of the Page Flip feature at Amazon’s newest office tower on the northern edge of downtown Seattle.
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This feature has started to roll-out today for the Kindle e-readers, Fire tablets and iOS and Android apps.
