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jswinden · 12-20-2010, 11:30 AM

In a scholarly work reading endnotes is okay if they are properly formatted and hyperlinked so that you press to read the note then press to return to where you were. If they aren't formatted/hyperlinked properly, they are useless. A popup box like that used for many dictionary lookups would be even better.

I think ereaders should have a setting that can remember the last 10 or so places you were in a book, that way you could get back to your last reading position within just a few simple clicks. Web browsers all have this feature and ereader software is basically a specialized web browser, so it would be easy to implement. I swear, the ereader manufacturers just are not very innovative when it comes to their reader software. They are way behind the curve in providing basic necessities like the ability to change:

font family
font type
background color
text color
margin sizes

Old, decade old, PDA reader software had much better functionality than the typical reader software today!

With the modern readers having fast processors and lots of memory, there is no reason why they cannot allow you to have at least two books, or book sections, opened simultaneously so that you could toggle between them.

12-20-2010, 11:30 AM	#10
jswinden Nameless Being	In a scholarly work reading endnotes is okay if they are properly formatted and hyperlinked so that you press to read the note then press to return to where you were. If they aren't formatted/hyperlinked properly, they are useless. A popup box like that used for many dictionary lookups would be even better. I think ereaders should have a setting that can remember the last 10 or so places you were in a book, that way you could get back to your last reading position within just a few simple clicks. Web browsers all have this feature and ereader software is basically a specialized web browser, so it would be easy to implement. I swear, the ereader manufacturers just are not very innovative when it comes to their reader software. They are way behind the curve in providing basic necessities like the ability to change: font family font type background color text color margin sizes Old, decade old, PDA reader software had much better functionality than the typical reader software today! With the modern readers having fast processors and lots of memory, there is no reason why they cannot allow you to have at least two books, or book sections, opened simultaneously so that you could toggle between them. Last edited by jswinden; 12-20-2010 at 11:36 AM.