17. An electronic device comprising: a memory that includes instructions for operating the electronic device and includes at least one electronic book that is capable of being displayed on the electronic device; a display; a touch sensitive input device; and control circuitry coupled to the memory, coupled to the touch sensitive input device and coupled to the display, the control circuitry executing the instructions and is operable to: display at least a portion of a current page in a current chapter of the electronic book on the display; store a position of the current page as P and the current chapter as C in the memory of the electronic device; detect, through input received from the touch sensitive input device, simultaneous multiple touches; detect, through input receive from the touch sensitive input device, a gesture comprised of movement of the simultaneous multiple touches; interpret 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 display, on the display, at least a portion of the different page of the electronic book in response to the detection and interpretation of the gesture.
17. An electronic device comprising: a memory that includes instructions for operating the electronic device and includes at least one electronic book that is capable of being displayed on the electronic device; a display; a touch sensitive input device; and control circuitry coupled to the memory, coupled to the touch sensitive input device and coupled to the display, the control circuitry executing the instructions and is operable to: display at least a portion of a current page in a current chapter of the electronic book on the display; store a position of the current page as P and the current chapter as C in the memory of the electronic device; detect, through input received from the touch sensitive input device, simultaneous multiple touches; detect, through input receive from the touch sensitive input device, a gesture comprised of movement of the simultaneous multiple touches; interpret 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 display, on the display, at least a portion of the different page of the electronic book in response to the detection and interpretation of the gesture. 27. The electronic device according to claim 17 , wherein control circuitry animates a turning of multiple pages in the electronic book in response to the interpretation of the detected gesture.