[chaley]

I have an alpha implementation of the ability to customize the information shown on the book list. It seems to have acceptable performance, something arranged by strictly limiting the formatting possibilities.

There are three customizable containers available, described as "lines". The first (topmost) extends across the display. The second is split 50/50, and the third also extends across the entire display. You can put as many columns as you like into each container. Each consumes a real line in the container, unless it wraps in which it consumes as many as necessary.

The reason for three instead of two was to allow you to put the "full" lines above or below the "half" lines.

My question: is there anything wrong with this implementation? I know that it won't satisfy all desires. That is OK. What I want to know is if someone thinks that it satisfies few desires. For example, I know that the preference setup could be better, showing some kind of layout with column labels instead of using text and dialogs. Frankly, the amount of work to do that doesn't interest me. However, I am open to wording changes that might improve comprehension, bearing in mind that the number of words in some lines is strictly limited by sizes of phones. Android simply cuts off the lines if they are too long. I also know that some people suggested 70/30 lines, but I am not sure how serious or important that was.

I will release this stuff on the alpha channel as soon as I am reasonably convinced that it won't change a lot. That would be at minimum 2 or 3 days so I can test it on all my devices in all the orientations.

Some screen captures from my 2012 N7 are attached. The settings are tags in line one, "physical book" (a yes/no custom column) in line two left , purchase rights (a custom column) in line two right, and "virtual libraries" (a custom column) in line three.

EDIT: just noticed that I have the wrong dialog title in the selection dialog. That will be fixed.