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Some readers will still be paginating like always.Ĭan you think of any other ways that this new scrolling feature may impact Kindle eBook design?Īuthor of the Improve Your Math Fluency series of math workbooks and self-publishing guidesĬlick to view my author page. On the other hand, you can’t design your eBook with the assumption that everybody will scroll through it.But it is something to consider as an author or publisher. Of course, once the student gets used to this, they can scroll more carefully if they don’t wish for this to happen. However, if they scroll through the eBook now, they may stumble into the answers before reading the problems. Ordinarily, you could place the answer or solution on the next “page” so that students could try it first, then check their work. Suppose, for example, that you have an eTextbook with problems followed by answers or solutions.
In HTML, create and apply a style definition that adds a bottom margin to the paragraph. Ideally, you should do this through paragraph styles or HTML. The page break is removed in Continuous Scrolling, so if you want to have space between the last paragraph of your chapter and the chapter heading that follows, you want to add Space Before to the last paragraph. You want to add Space After to the last paragraph of a chapter (or section) that ordinarily precedes a page break.So let’s give a little thought to how this may impact eBook design. Some readers will now scroll through your eBook, whether you like it or not. This new feature is important to authors and publishers who use KDP for a couple of reasons. If you’d rather paginate your way through the eBook, just disable the Continuous Scrolling option and it will function just like it always has. In the settings, look for the Continuous Scrolling option, shown below for my Kindle Fire. However, now on supported devices it is possible to scroll down through a Kindle eBook just like you scroll through an article on a website online. When you changed the font size, line spacing, or read the book on a different device, the “pages” became significantly different. You used to paginate your way through a Kindle eBook by advancing onto the next “page.”īut Kindle eBooks also weren’t like print books. Some formatters used to say that a Kindle eBook is scrollable like a webpage.īut until now, that wasn’t quite right. NOW YOU CAN READ A KINDLE EBOOK BY SCROLLING DOWNWARD