[skillachie]

@Faterson

Not really, @skillachie, I'm afraid. You only see that information before you download a book to your library. Once you download it, no information on file size is available anywhere in BookFusion. (If I'm missing something again, please let me know.)

It constantly shows on the Web. But on mobile the file size information is displayed on the button. Usage showed that most readers were only concerned about the size (KB/MB/GB) before they downloaded the book but then it added very little value afterwards in the mobile app.

I guess we could look at potentially refreshing the designs at a later date to constantly show the file size. However, how is this valuable to you as a reader once the book is available on your device? To figure out which one of your books are taking up the most space and therefore remove them? I can see this as a good reason, just wondering if there are any others.

If you do implement this feature later on (not strictly necessary, as far as I'm concerned), please make sure it's dynamic, that is: based on the actual speed with which this or that BookFusion user is flipping pages in this or that book.

Got it

OK, but that's still a far cry from Marvin's ability to completely customize footers and headers to every reader's particular preferences.

Remember your commitment, @skillachie, that you wish for BookFusion to be better than Marvin and Moon+ Reader in all respects.

True but we will get there. We will first get the various features in then look at customizing these options afterwards.

It can absolutely be useful – for example when you're running out of storage capacity (your subscriptions are limited in terms of storage capacity, after all), so this can absolutely be useful especially (but not only) for locating large files (in all likelihood, PDF files with lots of pictures/multimedia in them), in order to perhaps delete them from one's BookFusion account, and thus free up some storage space.

Even more useful, however, I would find the option to sort books from longest to shortest (or shortest to longest), based on the number of words (and/or virtual pages) in them.

As I mentioned, @skillachie, I typically read 12+ books simultaneously, but it would be suicidal if all 12+ of them were as thick as Tolstoy's War and Peace. I always strive for a healthy mix of long and short books among the dozen.

So, indeed, the length of a book is often a crucial/primary criterion for me when I'm deciding which book I'm going to read next.

Thanks. This is reasonable.

I absolutely do! You must have missed that in one of my tremendously long posts in this thread. (And I don't blame you!)

Haha. Well I guess no quick win for you with this one then. We have to just allow loading custom fonts. Was considering just adding a couple more fonts in the next release that might have covered your use case as well but it appears the only solution is custom fonts.

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.

Definitely right on your assumptions. it is something we could explore with a large number of readers that support the platform. It would be easier to explore creating a plugin for Koreader that syncs reading progress and highlights at least to start when we get there.