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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
Search: It's a little confusing. I searched for Clarke (Arthur C.), he has written a few stories that are online legally. I got hits for Peter Watts among many others, probably because of his novels featuring Lenie Clarke (which are good, by the way). Maybe an advanced search function? Or, at least, when I select "Author" the search will be for the name of an author, not just return author nodes (It seems that you're using Drupal).
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Use "author:" in your search to list the books from one specific author:
http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/se...uthor:Doctorow
You can use "surname:" or "firstname:" to search for a specific author:
http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/se...rname:doctorow
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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
Word count: When I want to check out an author I've been recommended I frequently want to check out his/her short stories, if any, to see if I like the style. A categorization might also work, but a word count is easy to develop, cheap on the db (count and store only when updating the book) and would be helpful.
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While visiting the page of an author, click on order: Type to group short stories together.
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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
Custom PDF bug: There seems to be a bug; when I change preferences I will frequently get the previous, cached version. Other times I will get a freshly generated one with the new settings. I've experienced this when changing font sizes and fonts. I see the value in caching, but people will rarely be requesting the exact same custom PDF twice.
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We don't cache custom PDFs, probably a bug with the HTTP headers for the cache (they're not well supported by the different browsers)
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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
Clickable PDF TOC: This might be more complex, since you'd need to generate the PDF first, then TOC, and merge them. It would nevertheless be a valuable addition, and one I'm sure that you have already thought of.
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For formats where you can handle the TOC in the metadata (PDF & ePub) we don't add an inline TOC. We have a clickable multi-level TOC on every PDF, the problem is on the iLiad's side (works fine on a desktop computer, or the Sony Reader).
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Floating point values: Again for custom PDF. There is a difference between font sizes 8 and 7.5 
This might be an issue with your generator, but FP values for font size is supported by most software. |
Correct, we should fix this.
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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
Names: What's up with the surname-only policy? A very small nitpick, but my monitor has room for given names as well
It looks very strange, in addition given names can be an advantage when scanning long list for a specific person. Or maybe it's just me. |
We display surnames only while listing books. If you have a list of authors, you'll see their full names.