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Originally Posted by kaufman
How about instead of having two columns of metadata, you limit them to one column but have an option to show two columns of books in list view? Then you kill a lot of the dead space on tablets but avoid all of the two columns of metadata complexity.
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Originally Posted by chaley
I don't see how this would be accepted by users. I assume that you are suggesting that if I have 4 values to display then I display 2 on the left and 2 on the right. That doesn't deal with width, and also makes the position of a given metadata item indeterminate, something you implied above wouldn't be acceptable.
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No, I wasn't very clear. Right now the list view screen looks like this:
Book1-Cover | Book1-Metadata
Book2-Cover | Book2-Metadata
Book3-Cover | Book3-Metadata
Your current thought is to give them two columns of metadata so that each row was
Book1-Cover | Book1-Metadata-Left | Book1-Metadata Right
Book2-Cover | Book2-Metadata-Left | Book2-Metadata Right
Book3-Cover | Book3-Metadata-Left | Book3-Metadata Right
My ideas was that you (optionally) give them one column of metadata per book, but two books per row
Book1-Cover | Book1-Metadata | Book2-Cover | Book2-Metadata
Book3-Cover | Book3-Metadata | Book4-Cover | Book4-Metadata
Book5-Cover | Book5-Metadata | Book6-Cover | Book6-Metadata
This allows you to kill a lot of empty space while at the same time avoiding a lot of complexity related to multiple columns of metadata. Does that make sense?