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Originally Posted by j.p.s
I just used calibre's CLI ebook-viewer to open two different books at the same time.
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Sure, or you can open multiple browser windows for Kindle books and tab and tile them and workspace them. This works on iPadOS, Windows, macOS, maybe even Android and ChromeOS (I haven’t kept up). I don’t read books on my laptop or desktop, a calibre requirement.
It’s just odd that reading apps on laptop/desktop don’t in general support it, I assume it’s because like me not many people find that pleasant or useful. Particularly since MDI (and multiple app instances) have been supported since day 1 (‘workspaces’ took a little longer but have been there for years now).
Mostly I have 2 use cases:
1) side by side foreign language and English translation (or vice versa)
2) multiple side by side workspaces with reading app on one side and ‘something else’ (web page, note app, map etc.) on the other, with ability to switch quickly between them and persistence between restarts)
And they have to be more than just ‘viewer’ capability (i.e. need highlighting, bookmarks, annotation).
On iOS, I’ve seen apps like Marvin where they have two like-functioned apps that can provide 2 workspaces but then you are stuck if you go to 3. If someone would just implement iPadOS 13 features (I include Apple Books as one someone) I would be happy for at least a few minutes
