[hyphenreader]

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Originally Posted by Faterson

You, Matt, opted for ADE pages as the (only) page-count option in your Hyphen e-reader, and while I disagree, it's definitely a superior solution compared to Marvin's totally random invention of "250-word 'pages'". Conversely, Marvin's footers, and especially their newly added (though still incomplete) footer customization options are clearly ahead of Hyphen's footers. Generally, I love seeing the "XXX pages left" data rather than "I'm on page XXX", so I'd like to see that display option in Hyphen; as well as the ability to have (optionally) 1 or 2 decimals displayed for the "percentage read" indicator.

Thanks for the feedback.

Regarding page counting, both types you mentioned available in some regard. Hyphen uses ADE pages in most places. Instances where you might want a reference, or something that will take you back to approximately the same place in the text. You'll see these in the book nav slider and shelf. As for 'screen flips', Hyphen displays those by default in the page footer ('X pages left in section') while reading, not ADE pages though you can switch to using ADE pages in the footer in Settings.

I'm still exploring the pagination issue. It's defintely one that's tough to get right, and possibly one of the biggest issues with digital book formats.

Originally Posted by Faterson

While you're here, Matt, it's definitely nice to see yet another e-reader clearly inspired by Stanza and/or Marvin. My compliments. Hyphen still has some catching up to do before it reaches at least Marvin's level, but it seems to be on the right path. Now, I've only briefly tested Hyphen for now, and perhaps it's due to that being a free version, but some things didn't seem to be working right. The only book I could open was Moby-Dick,

That's a restriction of the free version, you're limited to the book you've most recently imported, in this case Moby Dick.

Originally Posted by Faterson

but reducing paragraph spacing in this particular e-book appears to be impossible.

You tested this in the Table of Contents/Intro, right? In the case of the Moby Dick ePub, what you're seeing isn't paragraph spacing - it's actual line breaks in the text, and short of modifying the text, is outside of Hyphen's control. \n\n, instead of <br />.

Originally Posted by Faterson

It's possible to make a highlight, but it's unclear how to change the highlight color, or in fact how to add an annotation to the highlight, other than by accessing it via the highlights list (a terrible runaround).

You modify/annotate a highlight by long-pressing it. This is one of the interactions that I've improved in a coming update, however.

Originally Posted by Faterson

On the plus side, Hyphen offers 8 highlight colors as opposed to Marvin's 6 colors. In terms of annotations export, Hyphen is only slightly less glitchy than Marvin: unlike Marvin, Hyphen does preserve paragraph breaks from the original highlight when exporting, but just like Marvin, Hyphen fails to preserve basic formatting (such as italics or bold) inside the highlight, and just like Marvin, Hyphen fails to preserve line-breaks in user annotations.

That's true. Could you tell me more about how you use exported highlights? Would you also want things like images, font sizing, headers, etc., preserved?