Google Fast Flip: Reading Online a Bit More Like Print

Print has its advantages. In addition to its portability, a magazine or newspaper is easy to flip through to find what you’re looking for, or run across articles or ads you didn’t know you’d want to read. Whatever other advantages the Web has, and notwithstanding Dave Winer’s “river of news” concept, this kind of quick scanning is still tough on a screen, no matter how fast your Internet connection is. Google is taking a shot at solving this with an experiment out of its Google Labs operation called Fast Flip.