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miki · 01-02-2009, 12:53 PM

It would be great if Jinke updated the software for the EZ Reader to do the following things:

- Sort by physical file name (this is important for serialized HTML books - example below)
- In the booklist/bookshelf display (say you had 200 books), add the ability to jump directly to the 5th page in the display, instead of having to keep hitting next to go to page 5.
- While in the reading book mode, you can choose to go directly to the next book in the list (instead of having to go back to the list, scroll to the page, and select).

Basically, I read a lot of serialized books, where each "chapter" numbers 20 pages, and there are hundreds of chapters per book. I like to use the booklist / folder method as a sort of chapter of contents for each serialized book.

Unfortunately, the method of sorting by name doesn't work for me, since the chapter numbers are spelled out "one", "two", "three", instead of "1", "2", "3".

Neither does sort by date modified, since chapters sometimes get updated and need to be redownloaded, changing it's "modified" date to a more recent date than later chapters.

So it would be great if you could have the option to sort HTML files in the list by file name, which are ordered sequentially, in addition to the book "title" and date modified.

It's also a bit annoying to have to go back to the book list to select the next chapter (or, rather, "book") to read. It'd be great to have an option to "Jump to the next book" if you were in a browsing mode (or, for me, reading a serialized book).

01-02-2009, 12:53 PM	#1222
miki Member Posts: 16 Karma: 102 Join Date: Nov 2008 Device: EZ Reader (Hanlin V3)	Feature request - Advance to next book in list It would be great if Jinke updated the software for the EZ Reader to do the following things: - Sort by physical file name (this is important for serialized HTML books - example below) - In the booklist/bookshelf display (say you had 200 books), add the ability to jump directly to the 5th page in the display, instead of having to keep hitting next to go to page 5. - While in the reading book mode, you can choose to go directly to the next book in the list (instead of having to go back to the list, scroll to the page, and select). Basically, I read a lot of serialized books, where each "chapter" numbers 20 pages, and there are hundreds of chapters per book. I like to use the booklist / folder method as a sort of chapter of contents for each serialized book. Unfortunately, the method of sorting by name doesn't work for me, since the chapter numbers are spelled out "one", "two", "three", instead of "1", "2", "3". Neither does sort by date modified, since chapters sometimes get updated and need to be redownloaded, changing it's "modified" date to a more recent date than later chapters. So it would be great if you could have the option to sort HTML files in the list by file name, which are ordered sequentially, in addition to the book "title" and date modified. It's also a bit annoying to have to go back to the book list to select the next chapter (or, rather, "book") to read. It'd be great to have an option to "Jump to the next book" if you were in a browsing mode (or, for me, reading a serialized book). Last edited by miki; 01-02-2009 at 12:58 PM.