SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTENT REPAGINATION PROVIDING A PAGE CONTINUITY INDICIUM WHILE E-READING

1 . A method executed in a processor of a computing device, the computing device further including a memory storing instructions and a display screen rendering e-book content including text formatted according to a series of digitally constructed pages, the method comprising:

receiving a repagination-inducing action at a current page being displayed, the current page having a beginning text portion and an ending text portion;

reconstructing the current page by maintaining the beginning text portion while reflowing the ending text portion into a next page, the next page having a next page beginning text portion that includes at least a part of the reflowed ending text portion; and

duplicating the next page beginning text portion onto an indicium location at the reconstructed current page;

whereby the indicium location shows the next page beginning text portion.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein the indicium location is along a bottom edge of the reconstructed current page as displayed on the display screen.

3 . The method of claim 2 wherein the content of the current page further includes one or more images interspersed among the text therein.

4 . The method of claim 1 wherein the next page beginning text portion comprises three to five words of text.

5 . The method of claim 1 wherein indicium location is rendered visually differently from text content of the reconstructed current page.

6 . The method of claim 5 wherein the different visual rendering comprises one of: a shading, a color, and a text font size visually contrasting with text content of the reconstructed current page.

7 . The method of claim 1 wherein the text of the current page comprises an attribute selected from the group of text attributes consisting of: a font size, a word spacing, a line spacing, and a font type.

8 . The method of claim 7 wherein reflow of the ending text portion preserves a text attribute selected from the group of text attributes.

9 . The method of claim 1 wherein the repagination-inducing action comprises a font size change enacted upon text of the current page.

10 . The method of claim 1 wherein the display screen comprises a touch screen display.

11 . The method of claim 10 wherein the repagination-inducing action comprises one of a thumb, a finger and a stylus superposed upon text of the current page at the touchscreen display.

12 . A computer-readable medium that stores instructions for a computing device, the computing device including a processor, a memory and a display screen rendering e-book content including text formatted according to a series of digitally constructed pages, the instructions being executable by the processor to cause the computing device to perform operations that include:

receiving a repagination-inducing action at a current page being displayed, the current page having a beginning text portion and an ending text portion;

reconstructing the current page by maintaining the beginning text portion while reflowing the ending text portion into a next page, the next page having a next page beginning text portion that includes at least a part of the reflowed ending text portion; and

duplicating the next page beginning text portion onto an indicium location at the reconstructed current page;

whereby the indicium location shows the next page beginning text portion.

13 . A computing device comprising:

a memory that stores a set of instructions;

a display screen rendering e-book content including text formatted according to a series of digitally constructed pages;

a processor that access the instructions in memory, the processor further configured to:

receive a repagination-inducing action at a current page being displayed, the current page having a beginning text portion and an ending text portion;

reconstruct the current page by maintaining the beginning text portion while reflowing the ending text portion into a next page, the next page having a next page beginning text portion that includes at least a part of the reflowed ending text portion; and

duplicate the next page beginning text portion onto an indicium location at the reconstructed current page;

whereby the indicium location shows the next page beginning text portion.

14 . The computing device of claim 13 wherein the indicium location is along a bottom edge of the reconstructed current page as displayed on the display screen.

15 . The computing device of claim 13 wherein the next page beginning text portion comprises three to five words of text.

16 . The computing device of claim 13 wherein indicium location is rendered visually differently from text content of the reconstructed current page.

17 . The computing device of claim 16 wherein the different visual rendering comprises one of: a shading, a color, and a text font size visually contrasting with text content of the reconstructed current page.

18 . The computing device of claim 13 wherein the repagination-inducing action comprises a font size change enacted upon text of the current page.

19 . The computing device of claim 13 wherein the display screen comprises a touch screen display.

20 . The computing device of claim 13 wherein the repagination-inducing action comprises an object superposed upon text of the current page at the touchscreen display.

21 . The computing device of claim 13 wherein the object superposed on the content is one of: a thumb, a stylus and a finger digit.