Aw come on. I get the HN thirst to knock Apple about absolutely everything, but the page turn animation is utter bullshit.
When I’m reading a real book I don’t see some absurd ‘scrolling over page turn’ - I just turn the page. It’s over in the blink of an eye, and isn’t some “joyful” imaginative experience, at all.
Nope, sorry, you're wrong. The page turning animation was delightful.
If you didn't care for it, you could ignore it, it was fast. But it showed that the designers of iBooks had cared about it being an experience of reading books.
The new animation is just... weird. It's not an actual thing and makes no sense. It doesn't even look like you're yeeting the top page out of the pile since the bottom one moves.
Vast majority of animations are done in the blink of an eye. When done well, you barely notice them, it just feels good. When done poorly (most new page turning animations), it becomes noticeably odd and that's one of the worst qualities for an animation to have.
Like you, I could not care less about the page turning animation. As long as I see the next page it's fine with me.
The thing that prompts me to comment is that this feels like yet another place where the "artfulness" of software is getting optimized out of things. Whatever any of us thinks of the animation, it was clearly the result of clever work by the team putting out the app. The two ways of turning the page give a different feel and have a different character.
I think how apps feel - and the engineering behind making them feel a certain way - often does not get its due. I think we, as an industry, should do more to celebrate people doing things "the hard way" because it's nice - and not dismiss it as "absurd."
It may seem trivial, but I assure you it's valid criticism. FWIW, I've stopped using the Books app on my Ipad in favor of emailing my ebooks to my Kindle account and reading it through the Kindle app.
Why couldn't they have an option to keep the old animation? In 2022, it should be that simple, but of course...
It's not that I loved the old animation, but rather that I can't stand the current one. It's like I'm rotating a deck of cards, taking one off the top of the pile and putting it underneath. Not very pleasant to me, and also not an animation style I've seen used in any other book apps to my knowledge. I wonder why that is?
When I’m reading a real book I don’t see some absurd ‘scrolling over page turn’ - I just turn the page. It’s over in the blink of an eye, and isn’t some “joyful” imaginative experience, at all.