Amazon’s new Page Flip feature for Kindle pins the reader’s current page while browsing. (Amazon image) One of the most natural habits when reading a physical book is to save your place with a ...

The original mission of Amazon's Kindle to make reading e-books as easy as reading print books just took another major step forward with the introduction of a new feature called Page Flip. SEE ...

Not all books support Page Flip. Amazon says it’s available for “millions of books,” but you’ll want to look for a “page flip:enabled” notice in the description at Amazon.com.

This button zooms the user out and lists nine pages on the screen in a 3 x 3 grid to easily view or return to highlighted passages or graphics. The three-page view can be accessed by tapping the ...

Though Page Flip can be used with any Kindle book, the feature seems most applicable for non-fiction. These are typically the books in which you’d take the time to make notes or highlight passages.

But you can’t do everything you would with paper pages–like dog-ear them, buzz the corners like a flip-book, or whatever else a dead-tree book affords. And that’s the trouble.

The feature, called Page Flip, is designed to be the “digital equivalent of sticking your fingers in the book,” says Amazon Kindle VP Jeff Kunins.

It uses Apple’s private, undocumented programming APIs, so it’s unlikely ever to be seen in the App Store, but that doesn’t make this e-book page-flipping design any less amazing. The demo ...