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.
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.
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."
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?
No, it’s not.