Electronic device capable of showing page flip effect and method thereof

An electronic device capable of showing page flip effect, the electronic device comprising:

• an input unit configured to generate instructions in response to a user operations;
• a storage unit configured to store electronic documents and a plurality of effect pages, wherein each of the effect pages comprises a first part, a second part, and a third part, the first part is a transparent figure, the second part is a flip-page figure representing a flipping effect;
• a display unit configured to display the electronic documents;
• a processing unit comprising:
• an instruction receiving module configured to receive a flip-page instruction produced by the input unit;
• a page determining module configured to determine a target page according to the flip-page instruction;
• an obtaining module configured to obtain one of the effect pages in sequence when the instruction receiving module receives the flip-page instruction;
• a combination module configured to cover a current page with the obtained effect page, and cover the third part of the obtained effect page with a part of the target page whose size and location is the same as that of the third part of the obtained effect page, and produce a combined page;
• a display control module configured to control the display unit to display the combined page.