10-21-2008, 02:30 PM | #16 |
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1. implement the html hyperlink function "link-to-a-different-file" (<a href="/path/to/file">My name for book</a>).
2. recognise the presence of the file at the library level ("index.html" seems like a catchy name !) and then simply display two options - open index.html or open main library. 3. save the current list of files, and add an option "rescan all books yes/no". 4. When in reader mode, overload the volume keys function, one to add/remove a bookmark, and possibly the other to go to "goto" or something. With the first three options, we get rid of the long delay on bootup, and we can also roll our own indexes to our own preferences. Lets face it, what I happen to like, you may loathe. Supply a couple of sample index.html templates as well, for the newby. I'm also sure that very quickly some of the geniuses on this site will have written programs or scripts in perl or python to make building and maintaining such an index file even easier. As for mobi itself. Its all been said before. Being (very) generous the various implementations are idiosyncratic at best, and what documentation there is is 10 years out of date, incomplete, and positively user-mendacious at times. I would love to see the cybook implementation match the desktop one - {divs} supporting border and background colour on the cybook would be nice, for example. Such a change I assume is under mobipocket control, so I don't see it happening any time soon. However, lets be pragmatic about it. To the end user who simply wants to read ordinary books (serially, without paging all over the place within the book) on the cybook, on the whole it does a good job. Of course, to the programmer or formatter preparing the book, it can be a frustrating nightmare at times. And finally, an off-topic suggestion for a hardware upgrade. Who on earth thought using an incredibly tiny *non-captive* screw for the battery cover was a good idea? When seated at your desk at home it is a real pain, when travelling it is impossible. And somebody has walked off with my micro screwdriver set AGAIN. ARRRRGH. Surely a small slider that catches under the main part of the case wouldn't have been impossible? |
10-21-2008, 03:05 PM | #17 | |
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10-21-2008, 03:09 PM | #18 | |
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I have used iRiver iHP120 and iAudio D2 and both can browse using directories.
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Restricting your search to a tree structure will give faster access to the price of some limitations. But if the tree structure fits how you think about books then this is optimal. And the access method should work on all platforms (like my N810) and since I need to store the books somewere I have to do the work of placing in the correct directory but I do not want to do more work for a book that I might read sometimes in the future. |
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10-21-2008, 03:35 PM | #19 | |
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The advantage of using tags is that it does not stop you from using your system. Simply select it in that way. Sort it on authors, titles, genres or whatever way you think about books. But easy browsing is also possible for the people that like to do that. Or 'home in' for people that like that way of navigating. For me a fixed tree structure is much to restricting. It remembers me of Henri Ford: "You can get the car in any color that you like. As long as it is black" |
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10-21-2008, 07:02 PM | #20 | |
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10-21-2008, 08:44 PM | #21 | |
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10-22-2008, 02:31 AM | #22 | |
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Not being a native English speaking person I do not understand the need for dictionary lookup, personally I've never needed it when I read a book, but since it is not the first time I see it so strongly emphasized, there must be some reason. What about lit support ? I see that bebook has it. Is it so difficult to implement ? Last but not least, metadata support. I am not very happy when I change the metadata in the desktop mobipocket and nothing happens in the Cybook. With metadata support I would strongly encourage (it should only be a small step) search and sort by author. Bruno |
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10-22-2008, 03:44 AM | #23 |
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Along with my previous wishes (folders and adjustable-buttons where I'm happy not to be the only one) iI would also like to have one tiny change that would increase usability a lot:
The lookup-selector should always go back to the last selected word of a page. It does that when the previous word was not found but whenever you successfully looked up a word it is reset to the beginning of a page. I usually read a page from top to bottom and whenever I looked-up a word the next word I need to lookup is below that previous word, it does not make any sense to reset the marker until the page was turned. |
10-22-2008, 05:15 AM | #24 | |
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I was going to propose the 20-book page layout and exiting on the side, but you can exit on the side no matter the layout and I'm sure Ortep already knows this. Last edited by Gaurnim; 10-22-2008 at 05:18 AM. |
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10-22-2008, 06:22 AM | #25 | |
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[EDIT] list moved to first message in the thread. Last edited by pdurrant; 10-22-2008 at 09:17 AM. Reason: suggestions list moved to start of thread |
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10-22-2008, 07:43 AM | #26 | |
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Just a question though, due to my ignorance. Why do you feel that folder could be difficult to implement. I understand that the Cybook has a Linux internally, which is able to read devices (the SD for system upgrade) therefore it has some rough device / directory support embedded. Why should it be difficult to make it explicit ? |
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10-22-2008, 08:08 AM | #27 |
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Great work pdurrant!
If Bookeen will be able to do all this one day ( - sorry about this I could not control myself...) the Cybook would have the head in the readers market for some time indeed. |
10-22-2008, 08:37 AM | #28 | |
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Guesssing often helps, but you can make big mistakes this way. I know, for example, the meaning of the word 'looming' but that has absolutely nothing to do with 'a loom' ( I know the meaning now ) Or I know a similar sounding word in Dutch or German and assume it has about the same meaning. But that can also lead to serious mistakes The word 'meet' in English is pronounced the same as the German word 'miet' . But don't say to a German woman you want to 'miet' her. Unless you want to be slapped in the face. In German it means: to rent. And In Dutch 'rent' means (he) runs Last edited by Ortep; 10-22-2008 at 08:42 AM. |
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10-22-2008, 08:55 AM | #29 | |
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Might it be worth it to add all the suggestions to the first post so that there is a easy reference of suggestions already made as opposed to starting a new post for every new suggestion |
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10-22-2008, 09:07 AM | #30 |
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With the existing Library view, extend it so that when it gets to the end, it loops back to the start rather than have to go all teh way back again.
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