Thanks for the idea, James. I've done something like that, but it still doesn't solve the issue with (for example) books like the Bourne Trilogy, unless you want to truncate the names to a bizarre degree. My copies are all named "Bourne 0x - The Bourne yyyyyyyy", but on the Story, I have to distinguish between them by the volume number, because the last word of the title on all three disappears off the side of the screen.
Look, it's not a deal-breaker. Neither is having a trilogy on your shelf made up of books from three different print runs of the books, with three different cover designs - but I've known people to purchase second copies of books just so they match the other ones in the set, and I've understood where they were coming from. Wouldn't do it myself, but I could conceive of doing so.
So, it's just on my list of druthers for the Story OS. (As in, I'd ruther it was like that...) Along with a manual that gave an idea of all these different options in using the device effectively! The OS has some well-considered capabilities, but many of them are not even mentioned in the available user guide and other material, and they sit alongside some other design choices that are far from spectacular.
Last edited by MacEachaidh; 08-13-2010 at 03:13 PM.
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