Patent ID: 7437683

Claim:
In a computer system having a user interface, including a touch-sensitive display, a method of displaying an electronic document including a plurality of pages, the method comprising the steps of: displaying a page of the electronic document to a user as an immersive reading page, the immersive reading page having the visual characteristics of a printed paper page; associating navigational functionality with an interactive region of the immersive reading page, wherein a page number of the immersive reading page is displayed, the interactive region spans only a portion of the immersive reading page, and the navigational functionality comprises displaying another immersive reading page of the electronic document; and carrying out the navigational functionality in order to display another immersive reading page of the electronic document, the navigational functionality being carried out in response to the user tapping the touch-sensitive display at the interactive region corresponding to the page number of the immersive reading page, wherein the navigational functionality is transparent to the user prior to the user tapping the touch-sensitive display at the interactive region of the immersive reading page, the interactive region is in proximity of the displayed page number, the interactive region including an area to the right of the page number and an area to the left of the page number on the display, and in response to the user tapping the area to the right of the page number, the navigational functionality is carried out by replacing the displayed page of the document with a subsequent page of the document, and in response to the user tapping the area to the left of the page number, the navigational functionality is carried out by replacing the displayed page of the document with a previous page of the document.