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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I hope this feature is buried so deep that it's nearly impossible to find.
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I think a
balanced approach would be to make it possible to override any and all publisher settings just as easily as to ensure that they are respected.
I don't think either of the two approaches should get a preferential treatment by the user interface. There is no single "correct way" of reading e-books, after all. This should be let entirely up to the reader's own preference.
To me, this (and not the medium) is perhaps the biggest difference between printed books and e-books: with printed books, publishers
enforce their ideas of what a book should look like on all their readers, whereas with e-books, each of us is (at least potentially) his or her own typographer. It would be misguided to try "hiding" this prerogative of e-books in the user interface.
I remember that you worship at the altar of publisher settings, and you probably remember I enjoy overriding publisher settings mercilessly.
But that's just you and me, and our personal biases should not influence BookFusion's interface, making it lean towards one or the other approach.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Any chance you could see your way to making a version that runs on Kobo Readers?
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That would be fantastic, I agree!
But it's probably a tall order. (See our discussion of PocketBooks above.)
As I see it, it would be nice for BookFusion to take a
balanced approach towards
all three primary platforms that there are nowadays:
Android + iOS + web. (That is currently not the case, with Android lagging behind.)
Anything above and beyond those 3 primary platforms would be an extremely nice bonus and would exceed my expectations.
I would say that platform
no. 4, in terms of priority, would be
Android on e-ink. BookFusion already works that way, although it's not optimized. Perfectly usable, nonetheless.
Priority
no. 5 could be the various
proprietary e-ink platforms: Kobo, PocketBook, Kindle...
As I say, it's an extremely tall order, and I wouldn't blame @skillachie and his team in the least if they never really got around to implementing priorities #4 and #5.
I suppose BookFusion would need a
giant subscriber base in order to provide consistent funding for such a comprehensive coverage of truly
all platforms. It might happen, but... well, it sounds too optimistic perhaps.
I'm more modest in my expectations, and define "cross-platform" simply as
Android + iOS + web.
E-ink in any shape or form (and we
already have it in a usable form) would be a delightful bonus, but I don't consider it a must.