Electronic publications are increasingly replacing physical media, where standards have evolved to mimic these physical media. Accordingly it is beneficial to provide electronic publication software systems and/or software applications to enable new paradigms that provide consumers, authors, publishers, retailers, and others with a method of navigating electronic content comprising the ability to generate a user interface that supports individual page turns as well as small, moderate and large adjustments of position within the electronic content, wherein the user interface supports these adjustments in a manner that is consistent. The method further comprising the ability to receive an indication of an action by a user relating to an adjustments of position within an item of multimedia content rendered on a display device; determine a characteristic of the action; determine a first action relating to the retrieval of additional content of the item of multimedia content based on the characteristic of the action; and determine a predetermined subset of a plurality of objects to render to the user based on the characteristic of the action.