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Hello,
I expect to buy a Kobo Touch as soon as it becomes available in France. Even if the hardware is almost perfect for the price, I'm missing the following software features (from what I read):
- search inside books' text (to be implemented according to previous posts), at least inside the currently read book but it would be fantastic to be able to search text for multiple books (combined with a filter on tag values, see below), like a character's name occurrences in a saga.
- let the user define pairs of tag=value on each book with standard tags like authors, title, genre, editor, series (for sagas), index (in saga), editionYear... Use them as filters/multiple sort keys, select from a list of known alternatives for a given tag.
- a multi-columns (at least Author and Title, appear as buttons in the top line columns header to select the active sort key) single-text-line-by-book list of books without picture for fast browsing with tens of titles on each page and # A B C...Z quick navigation buttons on the bottom line (depending on what column is the sort key).
- localized keyboard (AZERTY with àÀ â çÇ éÉ èÈ êÊ ëË îÎ ïÏ ôÔ œŒ ùÙ ûÛ üÜ and € for french, possibly using dead-key prefix for ´`^¨). This is probably the easiest feature as the keyboard is virtual.
- choice among multiple dictionaries (free or not), both for translations and definitions, including a way to plug locale Wikipedia. Fast dictionary selector from inside a book. As a French and English books reader, I'd like to have definitions (not translations) for both languages, but this is only my personal choice.
- same features for Kobo and non-Kobo books (annotations, dictionary lookup...)
- dictionary lookup from any text-based document, including the dictionary itself.
- In this thread, I read that raw text documents appear with a blank cover, a simple solution: associate a second file with the same title and a .cover.png, .cover.gif or .cover.jpg (depending on the supported picture formats) extension, processing them as a single document.
I don't agree at all with people thinking that advanced features will necessarily make a reader harder to use, they only have to be implemented in a non-intrusive/disruptive way.
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