Comment by carlosjobim
4 days ago
You can -almost- do this on most browsers by pressing space bar to scroll down and shift+space bar to scroll up. But on phones there is no remedy yet.
For e-ink the problem with space bar scrolling is that it has an animation which messes up the display.
Historically we went from scrolls to pages when the printing press was developed. Digital reading needs to go through the same evolution, it seems.
"Almost" is doing a lot of work in this sentence. Lines of text end up halfway off the screen. Sticky headers obscure text and you have to scroll backwards. It's just a messy experience.
If you use reader mode, then you won't have those problems.
Bonus: J/K keys will scroll to next paragraph or HTML element.
Not sure if it's still there, but when the scrolling was introduced there was a setting to enable or disable it so the old jump mode would work too.
On Android you can pair a Bluetooth presentation remote. Up and Down work as Page Up / Down. I use that for reading on my phone and eReader.
I do this too, on an iPhone and iPad. I keep several remotes scattered around the house and in the car, and have strategically placed either cellotape-backed Magsafe mounts (on things like the car sun visor) or suspension arms (desks, bed).
Sounds overkill, I know - my wife hates it - but if you do a lot of reading on your phone/iPad, your hands will thank you. I have an eReader too (jailbroken Kindle) which I really like, in principle, but between PDF text sizing and reflow issues, it’s often just way easier to break out the iPad in reader mode with one of these remotes.