KOReader Gestures - surefish/koreader GitHub Wiki

KOReader on Kindle Touch/Paperwhite supports various multi-touch gestures.

Features that can be triggered by gestures:

Page up/prev.

• Single tap on the left (first quarter of the screen)

Page down/next

• Single tap on the right (remaining three quarters of the screen)

Display main menu/config menu

• Single tap on the upper center of the screen

Dismiss main/config menu

• Single tap outside of the menu frame

Page turn in menus

• Next page: swipe to the left
• Previous page: swipe to the right

Add highlight

• Select the text you need to highlight with a long tap and select the Highlight option from the pop-up menu. It will be automatically added to the bookmarks list

Remove highlight

• Tap on the highlight you want to remove and select the Delete option from the pop-up menu

Add/remove bookmark on the current page

• Single tap on the upper right corner

Toggle flipping mode

• Single tap on the upper left corner

Set page zoom mode

• Page: Diagonal pinch
• PageWidth: Horizontal pinch
• PageHeight: Vertical pinch
• Content: Diagonal zoom
• ContentWidth: Horizontal zoom
• ContentHeight: Vertical zoom

Set screen rotation (portrait/landscape)

• Rotate on screen with an angle larger than 15 degrees

Screenshot

• Tap on diagonally opposed corners of the screen with two fingers at the same time
• Or swipe from any corner to the diagonally opposed corner of the screen on devices without multi-touch support

Manual screen refresh

• Swipe diagonally