One little thing: reading in bed

[Sydde]

How do you read in bed? Lying on your back or on your side? Or perhaps a littel of each? If you read lying on your side, the iPad could present a little bit of a problem: it will maintain a vertical image when what you really want might be a horizontal image (i.e., head on pillow, looking at the page). Seems pretty minor, but this could be a unpleasant for some folks. Will people just adapt or will the device be improved somehow?

 

[MTI]

Hmm, what's the saying . . . adapt or die . . . yeah, that's the one.

Seriously, human life forms are considerably adaptable, but there are those for which habits are DNA rooted, so it will be up to the individual.

 

[Chaos123x]

What if you fall asleep and you wake up with a smashed screen and lacerations from the broken glass?

 

[brad.c]

I like reading in the bath.

Hmm, what's the saying . . . adapt or die . . . yeah, that's the one.

Tell me about it. I used to read in the shower, but it got the toast wet.

 

[robbieduncan]

I've used my iPhone in similar situations and it's possible to "trick" it into not rotating the display with careful turning. It's difficult to explain but the accelerometers on the iPhone at least seem to prefer fast motion...

 

[Nipz]

How do you read in bed? Lying on your back or on your side? Or perhaps a littel of each? If you read lying on your side, the iPad could present a little bit of a problem: it will maintain a vertical image when what you really want might be a horizontal image (i.e., head on pillow, looking at the page). Seems pretty minor, but this could be a unpleasant for some folks. Will people just adapt or will the device be improved somehow?

There does need to be a feature to turn off the accelerometer off to stop it from spinning.

 

[TraceyS/FL]

The ereaders i have have used allow you to turn off rotation. It hasn't been an issue at all on the Touch.

 

[Switz213]

Didn't they suggest something about being able to lock it in reading mode? I could just be making that up though, but I faintly remember Steve saying it.

 

[master-ceo]

The same way you would read a mag in bed

 

[Peace]

How do you read in bed with a laptop ?

 

[Etnies419]

I assume I'll be able to use Rotation Inhibitor, or something similar to it, if and hopefully when the iPad is jailbroken. Here's to hoping that Apple will add a lock option in 4.0 though.

 

[Chaos123x]

The iPhone purposely has a delayed reaction to changing angles so you can do this. I doubt the iPad will be different.

I hold my iphone in bed at the "wrong" angle all the time and it works.

 

[rdowns]

Nobody reads in bed.

 

[Sydde]

I guess the simplest UI implementation would be for the orientation to lock if you put your thumb on the corner of the page while rotating it. For books, at least.

 

[Chaos123x]

Html 5 should solve your problem. Just wait.

 

[Peace]

Nobody reads in bed.

what good is the Kamasutra app then ?

 

[rdowns]

what good is the Kamasutra app then ?

I stand by my statement. I said nothing about looking at pictures.

 

[bobob]

Nobody reads in bed.

what good is the Kamasutra app then ?

You're definitely not going to want to inhibit screen rotation for that App...

 

[WhatAmI]

You're definitely not going to want to inhibit screen rotation for that App...

It'a 2AM and I'm reading the forum in bed (slipped disc so no sleep) and I LOLed so hard I almost died of pain!!!!