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Originally Posted by kguil
@Grigori I'm working on an update that should bring some ideas of M2's home screen to M3 but it won't be the same.
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You could get a lot of the same effect of having the recently read books readily available by having an option to show the recently opened books at the start of the main books view (like I imagine the reading list option works) instead of the text view. I know there's some extra functionality from the beacon thing but that's also available from press-holding the cover in the main books view. What'd be the most useful is to have a list of things that could prepend the main books list (i.e. nothing, recents, reading list) and that way they would show up in whatever sort option the user desires instead of special casing the reading list with alphabetical.
And speaking of press-holding the cover, most of the time I do it I want to see the publisher's summary of the book, it'd be nice if that could be done without having to go to the menu option. Would also love to see the summary and cover more easily accessible when reading a la Marvin 2.
And speaking of the in-book toolbar, it really should auto-dismiss if you touch outside of it. I was going to say that if swiping down on the main toolbar brings up search then it'd be good for consistency if that happened in-book too, but the problem is that at least on the iPhone it's very easy to pull down notifications instead. Maybe it'd be better to have a search icon added next to the menu one on the toolbar which would make it more of a toggle.
The other main area to look at is anywhere that a back arrow exists in the toolbar it should take the user to the previous screen, anything else is confusing because it's counter to how the rest of the system works.