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Originally Posted by BookBunny
1) Make a file browser so users can sort/browse their books in folders
2) Ability to pin books to make them show up on the home screen
3) Keep the document reading like it is
4) Let users assign tags to books
5) Search function for title / author / tag
6) Optional playlist support and whatever else they want
There I fixed it!!!111111
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1. Forget the file browser. With (at current count) 1680 books on my Aura, it takes far fewer clicks to find a book by searching than trying to dig down through the directory structure. So improve the search function by adding the ability to limit the search specific fields (author, title, series, user tags, etc.). Series is the obvious one since search already searches the series field though the series gets mixed in with titles, authors, etc.
2. Not sure what you mean by that one. The current tiled interface will leave a book on the home screen even after it is finished until it gets pushed off by newer tiles. I've gotten into the habit of opening all the books in a series in reverse order and then reading through them. The finished books are handy when I want to refer back to an earlier book in the series.
3. Document reading... I'd like an option to open all ebooks with the ACCESS renderer without having to rename them to .kepub.epub. Perhaps an option to setup a user stylesheet which would override the ebook's stylesheet so I don't have edit every book to make them have the same font size, margins, paragraph and line spacing, etc. Possibly bite the bullet and spend the developer time to clear up some of the bugs in the Adobe Reader Mobile SDK.
4. Again with the number of books I keep around, I find using Calibre to be much easier than doing each book by hand on the ereader.
5. See my comment on #1. The current search function does search author, title, series but no ability to limit the search to one of those fields.
6. Not sure what you mean by playlist support? No audio support so it's not a request for an audio playlist and given that most people take quite a bit longer to read a book than to listen to a single song, a list of books to read doesn't seem that necessary to me.
Otherwise, I'd put an icon for search on the top menu bar on the home screen to bring up search rather than having the search bar on screen at all time. Possibly move library, bookstore and reading life from the bottom of the screen to icons on the top bar as well. Hmmm... with search that would give me 8 icons on the top bar so four on each side for balance compared to the current one on the left and three on the right.
Updates? Let the user know that an update is available and let them choose to install it or not. Those who like living on the bleeding edge will update, others will wait until they hear some feedback, others will never update.
Regards,
David