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I'd happily see an ability to add tags to books there, and search for books by tags, like in mp3 collections. Cybook has Linux on board, and it's not like everything it displays has to go through Mobipocket software - mp3 player, for instance, is standalone, and I think reading txt , html and pdf files is also made by Boo Reader made by Bookeen. So the whole Library view seems to be a separate program, replaceable by something I could write.
The only thing influenced by Mobipocket's inability to use folders should be that links from one Mobi book to the other won't work. But folders in Library should work by replacing the Library program, and folders in Boo Read should work by writing another reader for HTML and TXT (and possibly PalmDoc PDB files).
I really don't understand why Bookeen doesn't give us the ability to work on it - it would save them workhours they spend trying to please everyone, would give users freedom to use whatever readers they like more on Cybook, and readers would be made by fans, so no Bookeen responsibility. The only think they'd have to care about is eliminating the possibility of bricking the Cybook while developing the program, ie. giving the ability to always reset the Cybook to default state in which it would just work.
I don't see any necessity to mess with firmware in Cybook - all the programs that can be used on it could be placed where the books are, loaded from there, and executed. Unless the hardware designer made it impossible to execute programs from flash memory... but I can't imagine why it would want to do this.
In my opinion, the sooner someone can get Bookeen and their SDK supplier to release the GPLed code, the sooner we can start to write better software for it. Unfortunately, in one of the past topics there was information that FSF is currently flooded with GPL violation reports and probably wouldn't be able to take action against Bookeen.
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