diff --git a/docs/solo_features/message_screen/message_screen.md b/docs/solo_features/message_screen/message_screen.md
index dcb5a896..4e595e5c 100644
--- a/docs/solo_features/message_screen/message_screen.md
+++ b/docs/solo_features/message_screen/message_screen.md
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Messages appear as chat bubbles sized to their content — **right**-anchored fo
 | :-----------------------: | :-----------------------: |
 | ![](./fullscreen_oled.png) | ![](./fullscreen_eink.png) |
 
-Navigate between messages with **LEFT** (newer) and **RIGHT** (older). Long messages scroll with **UP/DOWN**.
+Navigate between messages like pages in a book — **LEFT** goes back to the older message, **RIGHT** forward to the newer one. The `<` / `>` markers along the bottom edge show which directions still have a message. Long messages scroll with **UP/DOWN**.
 
 If the message is a reply addressed to someone (`@[nick]`), a **To: nick** bar is shown below the sender name and the body is displayed without the address prefix.
 
diff --git a/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/FullscreenMsgView.h b/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/FullscreenMsgView.h
index 0ee60238..9bd68656 100644
--- a/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/FullscreenMsgView.h
+++ b/examples/companion_radio/ui-new/FullscreenMsgView.h
@@ -157,12 +157,14 @@ struct FullscreenMsgView {
       display.print(s_wrap_lines[scroll + i]);
     }
     drawScrollIndicator(display, startY, visible * lineH, lcount, visible, scroll);
+    // Page markers read like a book: the older message is back to the left,
+    // the newer one forward to the right (see handleInput).
     const int nav_y = display.height() - lineH;
-    if (has_next) {
+    if (has_prev) {
       display.setCursor(0, nav_y);
       display.print("<");
     }
-    if (has_prev) {
+    if (has_next) {
       display.setCursor(display.width() - cw, nav_y);
       display.print(">");
     }
@@ -172,8 +174,12 @@ struct FullscreenMsgView {
   Result handleInput(char c) {
     if (c == KEY_UP)          { if (scroll > 0) scroll--; return NONE; }
     if (c == KEY_DOWN)        { if (scroll < _max_scroll) scroll++; return NONE; }
-    if (keyIsPrev(c))         return NEXT;   // page between messages (encoder too)
-    if (keyIsNext(c))         return PREV;
+    // Page between messages (encoder too), in reading order: left goes back to
+    // the older message, right forward to the newer one. PREV/NEXT are named in
+    // message order, and MessagesScreen's _hist_sel counts newest-first, so PREV
+    // (older) is what a left press means.
+    if (keyIsPrev(c))         return PREV;
+    if (keyIsNext(c))         return NEXT;
     if (c == KEY_CONTEXT_MENU) return REPLY;
     if (c == KEY_ENTER || c == KEY_CANCEL) return CLOSE;
     return NONE;
diff --git a/release-notes.md b/release-notes.md
index 769464c8..ec08da22 100644
--- a/release-notes.md
+++ b/release-notes.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 
+- **Paging through the fullscreen message view now reads like a book** — **RIGHT** moves forward to the newer message, **LEFT** back to the older one, and the `<` / `>` markers along the bottom edge follow suit. It was the other way round before.
 - **Hardware CAD and RSSI interference-threshold detection were silently hardcoded off on companion_radio**, regardless of any setting. CAD now auto-enables whenever RX power-save (duty-cycle) is active — the noise floor isn't kept fresh during duty-cycle sleep, so a fresh hardware channel scan before TX is needed instead of the RSSI-threshold check.
 - **A long message could split a multi-byte UTF-8 character in half when truncated to fit the send frame** (e.g. a Polish/accented character landing right at the cut-off), delivering a mangled trailing byte to the app. Truncation now stops at the last complete character.
 - **Deleting the default "Public" channel didn't stick — it came back on every reboot.** A deleted channel is correctly left out of the saved channel file (to avoid rewriting it every save), but the Public channel was unconditionally re-added at every boot *before* the saved list was loaded, so its absence from the file never got a chance to matter. Now only seeded on a genuinely fresh device (no channel file yet) — once you've saved any channel state at all, your own list is authoritative.