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I have been using ebook readers for a while now and am seeing some amount of cumbersomeness when compared to physical books. I am trying to describe a vision for how an ebook viewer might work differently to improve their flexibility.

As everyone has certainly experienced with physical paper books, you can easily flip back and forth between pages and chapters. And with a shelf of related books, can swap between books and page markers quite easily, even comparing pages of two or more books at once. This is not quite as easy with viewers as they generally show one page at a time.

What I'm thinking of is similar to horizontal scrolling on some shopping sites; scroll left-back pages, right-forward pages. And chapters, scroll up/down. Use hot corners: top-left for Contents, top-right for Index (or reverse for right-to-left readers). I'd like to use bottom-left and bottom-right hot corners for user-selected alternate functions, such as last book viewed or next next book on shelf or set, and page split (2 books at once) functions.

Kind of related to this, I wish for the ability in Calibre's main application to select several books in a sequence and convert the set into new single book of specified type (in order selected, potentially each with their own ToC) thus making a bookshelf a single file or instance and making books more multi-dimensional, for example creating an author or subject anthology.

Thanks for listening and thanks for Calibre!