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Originally Posted by democrite
Sounds great. I can understand that'll take a while. Forgotten if it's been mentioned, vertical scrolling? It's one interesting way, among many, to compensate for navigating on a device, compared to a book. Kindle had other interesting ideas. As far as vertical scrolling, I feel it's quite needed, and particularly, let's hope an app comes for macOS, it is in some ways natural, like viewing a PDF, and my hope is that scrolling and searching, on macOS and iOS becomes as fast and easy as with PDFs. Vertical scrolling like iBooks seems difficult.
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Seamless, continuous vertical and horizontal scrolling is a definite goal, and is being worked into the next major app version of Hyphen.
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Originally Posted by democrite
Me too really need a syncing of position, annotations, bookmarks, etc. I'm ok with globally, and a back button, long tapped to show history if needed (that'd be interesting), should avoid any issues with losing ones place. iBooks solves syncing by adding it's own UUID in a .plist; Marvin goes by file checksum, far from ideal but understandable, since books can change let's say if one wants to add fonts, change CSS, is working on one's own book, gets an updated edition with corrections and wants to keep data, etc. ePubs don't necessarily have a UUID (in the .OPF or .NCX), but sometimes yes, and maybe that, the adept UUID, ISBN, etc. or something could serve as UUID, or there could be a fallback of what to use in other cases, or some UI, out of the way for those that don't need it or use it, to rematch ePubs as needed.
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ePub identification is a tough one. Hyphen uses a file checksum as well, even though (like you mentioned) this doesn't allow for ePubs to be changed while remaining linked to sync data. Thanks for the input!