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porkupan · 10-12-2006, 02:48 PM

I would like to second the following possibilities for improvement:

1) Add Unicode fonts (I believe the firmware already does support Unicode, but the fonts are not Unicode, missing all sets above the first 8 bits). Must add Unicode support to menu fonts as well. Even though the Reader is only sold in the U.S., it is wrong to assume that in the country of immigrants it is only going to be used to read books in English.

2) Add text search (with ability to select the search alphabeth to alternate with standard latin keyboard, i.e. Cyrillic, Western European, etc.).

3) Would be nice to add support for multiple 8-bit encodings (beside Unicode), but I don't know if it would be too much for Sony software people to manage (although all of it comes standard with Linux)

4) The clock is not a bad idea

5) Fix the PDF reader (why do the HTMLDoc PDFs turn pages fast, the PrimoPDF - somewhat slower, the PDFCreator - very slowly? Some image-heavy large PDFs I tried take as much as 5 minutes to turn a page!). I noticed that the M mode doesn't seem to take affect when paging forward, but it does when paging backward. The M icon stays, but the PDF is displayed in S mode.

6) Add some more ways to organize the texts in the Reader (folders, Author lists, playlists, whatever)

7) Allow deleting books in firmware (not only through PC-based CONNECT)

8) Open the API and show developers how to create and add their own applications to the Reader. I want to see FBReader ported to this platform, perhaps even Mobireader. This would make Sony Reader an instant cult hit (like Nokia 770, only with a better screen), if not necessarily a mass phenomenon.

10-12-2006, 02:48 PM	#40
porkupan Fanatic Posts: 556 Karma: 1057213 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: North Eastern U.S. Device: Sony Reader	I would like to second the following possibilities for improvement: 1) Add Unicode fonts (I believe the firmware already does support Unicode, but the fonts are not Unicode, missing all sets above the first 8 bits). Must add Unicode support to menu fonts as well. Even though the Reader is only sold in the U.S., it is wrong to assume that in the country of immigrants it is only going to be used to read books in English. 2) Add text search (with ability to select the search alphabeth to alternate with standard latin keyboard, i.e. Cyrillic, Western European, etc.). 3) Would be nice to add support for multiple 8-bit encodings (beside Unicode), but I don't know if it would be too much for Sony software people to manage (although all of it comes standard with Linux) 4) The clock is not a bad idea 5) Fix the PDF reader (why do the HTMLDoc PDFs turn pages fast, the PrimoPDF - somewhat slower, the PDFCreator - very slowly? Some image-heavy large PDFs I tried take as much as 5 minutes to turn a page!). I noticed that the M mode doesn't seem to take affect when paging forward, but it does when paging backward. The M icon stays, but the PDF is displayed in S mode. 6) Add some more ways to organize the texts in the Reader (folders, Author lists, playlists, whatever) 7) Allow deleting books in firmware (not only through PC-based CONNECT) 8) Open the API and show developers how to create and add their own applications to the Reader. I want to see FBReader ported to this platform, perhaps even Mobireader. This would make Sony Reader an instant cult hit (like Nokia 770, only with a better screen), if not necessarily a mass phenomenon. Last edited by porkupan; 10-12-2006 at 02:55 PM.