What do people feel about interactive page turn documents? Here's an example (I'm not focusing on this report specifically - just happened to be an example I knew off the top of my head).
Do these provide a good user experience or are there better ways of achieving the same thing?
As with any UX question, the best answer is always "It depends ..." of course! I'd be interested in what people think are the pros and cons. However, personally I am not a fan - online reading behaviour is very different from offline reading behaviour (scanning, satisficing, etc) so simply reproducing a printed page in a 'gimmicky' interactive format seems a bit disingenuous to me. I can't help but feel that they don't really add more than a standard PDF, and suspect that if there is a large amount of content users go straight to the downloadable PDF and print/read that instead anyway (however, I don't have access to web analytics in this instance to back this up) ...
Does anyone have any analysis of these tools, or can point me in the direction of some arguments for and against them?
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