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readingglasses · 07-13-2011, 10:50 PM

1. proper right to left language support.
2. allow not only dictionary to work on all epubs (and frankly, on as many formats as possible, anywhere the kobo can identify text) but allow custom dictionaries to be made in a standard format and loaded as lookup tools on kobo.
the sony prs+ open firmware will allow it and if they can do it by reverse engineering, then kobo can do it with all the blueprints. Sony already provides more than one language dictionary by default. And amazon sells a few not only as books but as in-document lookup tools.

3. FOLDERS. IT can't be said enough. Even if there's some problem with folders, any method of segregating groups of books. You can make it "modes" if the hardware platform/touchscreen etc are conducive to navigating a directory/file tree or even back/forth menu buttons at the bottom of the scree, like everything else, for a displayed tree. Kobo could make you memorize a sequence of taps to go into one group or another. I'll memorize it, anything. Just don't force me to wade through 20 pages of titles.

4. a stack or series of currently reading books.
For example, you want to read two books at once (or two documents, more likely) for cross referencing, you could say, "add this to currently reading multi list" and then you can exit one book and jump into another in your very small list, repeatedly. And everything else is as usual, the book has bookmarks, it opens to where you last closed it, etc.
If you are "currently reading" a large number of books, then that's already a big list and you should have a "really currently reading" small list of books for the immediate reading session. Not just a list of all currently "unfinished" books.

5. export or at least tell us how to find the list of bookmarks in an epub, on the kobo reader database files, when it's hooked up by usb. Then we can export that as a text file and print. If there are some lines you want to remember, that's easiest. I think this can be done on sony readers. (but this last one is the most frivolous of all the suggestions).

07-13-2011, 10:50 PM	#282
readingglasses Zealot Posts: 124 Karma: 9252 Join Date: Jul 2011 Device: (prospective) kobo touch	1. proper right to left language support. 2. allow not only dictionary to work on all epubs (and frankly, on as many formats as possible, anywhere the kobo can identify text) but allow custom dictionaries to be made in a standard format and loaded as lookup tools on kobo. the sony prs+ open firmware will allow it and if they can do it by reverse engineering, then kobo can do it with all the blueprints. Sony already provides more than one language dictionary by default. And amazon sells a few not only as books but as in-document lookup tools. 3. FOLDERS. IT can't be said enough. Even if there's some problem with folders, any method of segregating groups of books. You can make it "modes" if the hardware platform/touchscreen etc are conducive to navigating a directory/file tree or even back/forth menu buttons at the bottom of the scree, like everything else, for a displayed tree. Kobo could make you memorize a sequence of taps to go into one group or another. I'll memorize it, anything. Just don't force me to wade through 20 pages of titles. 4. a stack or series of currently reading books. For example, you want to read two books at once (or two documents, more likely) for cross referencing, you could say, "add this to currently reading multi list" and then you can exit one book and jump into another in your very small list, repeatedly. And everything else is as usual, the book has bookmarks, it opens to where you last closed it, etc. If you are "currently reading" a large number of books, then that's already a big list and you should have a "really currently reading" small list of books for the immediate reading session. Not just a list of all currently "unfinished" books. 5. export or at least tell us how to find the list of bookmarks in an epub, on the kobo reader database files, when it's hooked up by usb. Then we can export that as a text file and print. If there are some lines you want to remember, that's easiest. I think this can be done on sony readers. (but this last one is the most frivolous of all the suggestions).