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Originally Posted by astra
and it is being...what?
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Copied from the "Hey Sony" thread in the PRS-700 area of the forums...
While I'm thinking about it, there's also a cheap cheap way to provide support for "convenient access to large numbers of eBooks" that many advanced users have wanted.
This is the key bit:
Give us a hook either in the .lrf format or the Epub format that lets us refer to another file on the same device. All that's needed is the ability to let the 1-10 buttons (on the 500 and 505) or a stylus push (on the 700) open that remote file just as though we were at the main menu.
That hook alone would be enough for a 3rd party--probably an open-source programmer--to write a program that scans the current contents of the Reader and writes an index document. That document could provide whatever view they like of those contents: By author, by title, by tag, by series, by collection, by phase-of-the-moon, by cost of the eBook... whatever!
Sony could look at the modalities the community builds, and build-in the best of them in future firmware. Or just let the community build it for you! Either way, everybody wins.
Xenophon
P.S. If anyone at Mobileread has good contacts at Sony, please pass these ideas on to them! It would be so easy for them to get useful leverage from the open-source community. And, they'd look like friendly good-guys instead of "big bad faceless corporation." What's not to like?