GoTo Page
I like using ebooks. Among other things, it’s easier to do strategic searches (e.g., CMD-F) and most offer a pretty decent variety of annotation tools. But there’s a difference between using a dedicated hardware device (e.g., Kindle) and one delivered exclusively through the web. For example, in the case of the latter, many universities use netLibrary or some variation on that. At my university’s library, one of the ebook publishers made available through the netlibrary portal is the National Academies Press (NAS). In general, the interface is very usable and intuitive, but one feature I think that would improve its user value would be to add a navigate-by-page option. Many times I know the specific page I want to jump to, and even though NAS has a table of contents positioned on the right side of the screen, it only gives page ranges, so even after you navigate to that range, slow page caches make it more time-consuming than it needs to be move to the intended target page.
The design could perhaps be revised by putting the Go To page box where the Search box currently sits and then moving the Search box to one of its more common locations (e.g., upper-right).
