1. A computer-implemented method comprising: determining, based on a history of an electronic book, a page of the electronic book having an affinity; receiving a selection to flip through multiple pages of the electronic book via a manual selector; and responsive to the selection, presenting a flip through of the multiple pages of the electronic book in succession and at a rate, the rate slowed, paused, or stopped during presentation of the page of the electronic book having the affinity, the presenting rendering the page of the electronic book having the affinity at full resolution and rendering other pages of the electronic book as an approximation, the presenting rendering the page of the electronic book having the affinity and the other pages at a same size.
6. A computer-implemented method as described in claim 1 , wherein the history includes usage by other users, the other users other than a user associated with an e-book-reading device on which the method is performed, the usage of the other users including a number of persons that have read, highlighted, or bookmarked the page.