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Originally Posted by jharker
I agree very much with everyone who said something similar to this. We want the iLiad to be easy to use for the normal iLiad tasks, without anything that's non-intuitive or a huge departure from the current UI. At the same time, we need to add features (like search) that many users want.
I think my suggested arrangement does this pretty well, but I would really like to hear criticism and improvements of it. If you think it's going in entirely the wrong direction, please say so...
We can't really start work on these changes until there's a community vision of what our goal should be. Otherwise it'll turn into a piecemeal kluge without any sense of rhyme or reason.  |
I think the suggestion is pretty good. From an ease of use standpoint I believe that Sony has done a pretty good job and if we can stay focused on the core uses of the device and optimize around that we should be in good shape. In my usage I could see having a couple of documents open at once, but probably not more than three so my views tend to be toward the simpler side of things. Having just played around with DR1000s I think irex took a step back, if that's possible, from the iliad in the user interface department.
As someone who typically is reading more than one book at a time I believe Sony's bookmark page is brilliant. It's simply a view of all books that have bookmarks associated with them. They do kick the most recently read book to the top of the list which is nice, but other than that it's just a list of all bookmarks and what book it is in. It makes it very easy to jump back and forth between material. I haven't seen this on any other device and it is an incredibly useful view.