1. A method for navigating in an electronic book comprising: displaying at least a portion of a current page in a current chapter of the electronic book on a display screen of an electronic device; storing a position of the current page as P and the current chapter as C in a memory of the electronic device. detecting simultaneous multiple touches on a touch sensitive surface of the electronic device; detecting a gesture comprised of the movement of the simultaneous multiple touches; interpreting the detected gesture as a command to navigate to a different page of the electronic book, the different page being more than one page away from the current page P if P is more than one page away from a beginning or end of the current chapter C; and displaying at least a portion of the different page of the electronic book in response to the detection and interpretation of the gesture.