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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
- Fairly sluggish opening times (and rendering speed of text-only PDFs) keep me from constantly switching between books.
- The impossibility to do text searches/quickly look up footnotes/flip around through the pages (when they're in the back of the book; it would be nice if those footnotes were links to the relevant footnote in the index, but i guess that will have to wait until it's implemented in the PDF standard).
- Very limited bookmark support (the alternate iPDF viewer works well enough, but it really needs to support "normal" PDF bookmarks.), and possibly a GUI window that shows the bookmarks/index
While most of the above things are fairly easily fixed with CPU speed upgrades, these things really need to be addressed in some way before it can be called a "mature" product for reading, i'd say.. |
You're right-- the iLiad PDF viewers don't support search yet (which I find incomprehensible), can't have multiple documents open (I think there may be a possible workaround for this, though, since unix can run multiple applications at once, but I'm not sure about memory limits) and very limited support for bookmarks. I think all these can be addressed via software, though not trivially (the user development community has discussed all of these). The iLiad is not a mature product in any sense, and certainly not for academic reading. But I think it's the closest product the market yet has.
