Indicators for navigating digital works

摘要

This disclosure describes, in part, a progress gauge used to indicate a user's location in a digital work and to associate locations within the digital work with corresponding locations on the progress gauge. For instance, a progress gauge as described herein may comprise a progress bar having numerous segments corresponding to different sections (e.g., chapters, acts, scenes, etc.) within a digital work. Each segment of the progress bar may include a unique visual indicator, while each page within the corresponding section of the digital work may also include the same unique visual indicator or another type of indicator that maps to the visual indicator on the progress bar.

主权项

1. An electronic device comprising:
one or more displays; one or more processors; and one or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
rendering, on the one or more displays, at least a portion of a digital work that includes discrete sections, each of the discrete sections including a plurality of pages and being associated with a respective unique visual indicator, wherein each page of the plurality of pages includes the respective unique visual indicator associated with the respective section of the digital work; andrendering, on the one or more displays, a progress bar that includes discrete segments corresponding to the discrete sections of the digital work, each of the discrete segments including an image of the respective unique visual indicator corresponding to the respective section of the digital work, wherein: the unique visual indicators comprise top-level unique visual indicators, a first section of the discrete sections of the digital work comprises multiple different portions of content, each of the multiple different portions of content including a respective second-level unique visual indicator different from the top-level unique visual indicators, and the acts further comprise rendering, on the one or more displays, a respective second-level unique visual indicator along with a respective top-level unique visual indicator when the electronic device renders a corresponding portion of content of the first section of the digital work.