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Originally Posted by Micah
Well, I grant you that we've failed to deliver two column option -ends up it is *really* hard with the rendering engine we use. But "barely any customization" seems maybe an overstatement? Lots of font choices, themes, margins, night mode, swipe for brightness, line spacing, etc is IMO a decent if not comprehensive set, though definitely would like to add para spacing and a few other things. What has taken a ton of our time lately is contributing to the Readium projects (EPUB3 rendering open source projects for browsers and native apps). Also, been working really hard on a Windows desktop app, and it is almost done! e.g. doing final prep work now to release within a few days. There's some niceties in there that are not in ADE, including my favorite: Sync page location with mobile apps.
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"Barely any" for me means I can't make my own choices about what colours I want for Night mode, I can only choose one of your themes. Para spacing, the double page for landscape (sounds like thats never going to happen) Yes, brightness swipe, I remember when we asked for that. Here's another. Can you give each Author its own page when theres more than one book? I don't load many books at once in apps which don't have that option, because of this limitation. I guess thats why I've gone back to reading on Stanza again :-/ I was quite excited when I saw you'd added sync. I have never been able to get it working reliably on Marvin, and I don't much like iBooks, especially now they moved the book files out of iTunes.
Bluefire is my reader of choice for ADE, my local library books can be read in it and it suits me really well. Better than Kobo which is the only other option I considered.
With regard to fonts... and I asked this of Kris for Marvin as well... is there any reason to have font choices hardcoded into the software? Why not use exactly whats available on the device? I have a couple of additional fonts which I prefer to use, they are free fonts and I've added them with Anyfont. I read with TrebuchetMS in lieu of other options but I would love to have the fonts I like.
[edit] You going to do a desktop app for Mac, too?