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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
I only use the ereader application that comes with Calibre. I've tried about a dozen apps, all mangled my books and completely ignored my own stylesheet. And none of them want to keep the books in their original location.
What do you need, regarding touch features? I can open the book, I can read it, I can turn pages and I can close it. All without pen.
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Ebook-viewer is usable, but not particularily comfortable on a small handholdable 8" device. IMHO, it needs:
- Automatic remembering 100% of the last used state, including document that is open and place in the document.
- Larger leading (spacing) between menu items on contect menus which likely means abandoning some system services and generating these with specific code.
- Control of menu text sizes, again this likely requires abandoning system services and manually creating the menus.
Tablets used as eReaders are generally rather small by Windows standards, often 8" screens. All of the standard Desktop UI services provided by Windows produce UI that is too small to be convient in a touch only environment on such small screens.
For ebook-viewer to be comfortable on such tablets it will need to abandon almost all system services (file open/close dialogs, menus, etc) and replace them with its own custom code. Ebook-viewer would have to act like the MS Office 2013 applications which alter the UI in responce to their auto-detection of device attributes. This type of auto-detection or some manual Preferences setting (defaulting to tablet mode) would be necessary in order to avoid destroying the comfortable functionality for those who use more conventional desktop configurations.