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Originally Posted by mrspaceman
Here is an apk that people can have a look at to see if it will be of any more use than the original.
please remember that I've only spent a few days on this so far, so it will have bugs and flaw, it may eat your data, reformat all of your drives, cause tornado's, but I am not responsible if it does  |
Not bad for a concept. Looks very nice. I wonder if it would go crazy on someone with 5000 books on their reader though.
I don't know how those scrolling lists are organized internally, but perhaps it might be smarter or safer to show those books/covers in small portions. Say, scroll up to 50 (or 15?) recently opened books? Another idea is to organize the "shelves" by the genre, like Netflix or online book stores, but I don't think the genre info can be obtained without some serious parsing of file metadata. If via the Settings the user could select the genres to display on the from page...
I don't have any collections on my reader. Is that why the second and the 3rd "shelves" are empty?
In general, for people with a large library on their readers scanning of the entire memory doesn't make a lot of sense. That's the main premise behind PRS+. It may be a whole another project, but it would be nice to have an option to disable the total scanning, and rely on the filesystem/directory tree instead.
I wonder if it would make sense to have a link to some sort of a file manager, so we could jump directly to the filesystem view? I haven't found a file manager that would look nice on eInk
and understand how to open files (except perhaps ReLaunch). Root Explorer is OK for browsing (I wish it was black text on white background, and supported the paging via paging buttons of swipe), but it doesn't know how to open most file types.