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As the number of stores grows the list of stores in the search dialog is getting long. In the list are stores that some users do not find helpful for various reasons. One such reason is language, I only care about stores that sell books in languages I can read.

Currently you can disable stores in preferences, plugins. They're plugins so you can disable them just like any other plugin. However, I don't find this very friendly.

I have been speaking to chaley about this but I want to open the discussion up to the community. Some of these changes will require modification to the plugins themselves but this isn't a big deal. Here is what I have in mind.

A store chooser dialog accessible from the "Get Books" menu. The dialog will be similar to the store search dialog. Search input at the top and table of results at the bottom. The search is a full boolean search just like the store and main window search. So you can easily filter out stores you want to see or don't want to see.

The table will have multiple columns that can be searched. The first two are:

Enabled and Name. Enabled is a simple check box. Checked if you want the store plugin enabled and unchecked if you want it disabled.

What I'm thinking for the other columns is:

Drm free only - I feel that there are enough users who do no want to buy from stores that sell Drm content to make this a good column. This is for stores like smashwords that does not sell any drm content.

Public domain only - gutenberg and the like. Some people don't like classics.

Language - list of all languages the store carries books in.

Formats - list of formats the store has.

These columns should make it much easier for people to see what stores are right for them.

Sadly geographic restrictions is not doable. Few stores disclose this and fewer notify when they change this. It's very hard to determine without the store disclosing and I would rather not guess. A wrong guess will cause too many issues.

Suggestions, ideas, changes?