[Faterson]

Originally Posted by skillachie

We are more likely to create a plugin or integration with Koreader since it already works on Kobo.

That would be nice! KOReader looks very tempting (judging by its user manual), but because it supports neither iOS nor Windows, I chose not to actually install it anywhere, after browsing through its impressive user manual. Now, if KOReader cooperated with BookFusion, that would be a reason to give it a try.

Originally Posted by skillachie

We still have native desktop apps for OSX, Windows and Linux to do and adding embedded devices to the mix will require more resources. As a result an integration with Korereader is more likely.

That's interesting. I for one don't find native desktop apps to be a necessity at all. Is anyone actually reading books on a desktop machine in 2022?

So, at least for my needs, a web app, via an ordinary web browser, is perfectly enough for all my desktop needs, giving me the opportunity to process my book annotations.

Provided that the export of annotations works properly, of course – and right now, it does not: neither in BookFusion nor in any other e-reader software I have ever seen. Hopefully, BookFusion will be the world's first e-reader software to do it (annotations export) right.

Originally Posted by skillachie

It constantly shows on the Web. But on mobile the file size information is displayed on the button.

I apologize, @skillachie, I may be blind (again) here, but I can see no information about file sizes on the desktop, either.

Here is a screenshot of my primary bookshelf in BookFusion (in the finest browser there is, Vivaldi):



Can you see any information about file sizes there? I don't.

Neither does clicking any of the books/files help to get the information.

By the way, I don't think it's necessary at all for the file size info to be visible at all times. It could only be visible on demand, after tapping/clicking a book, to view detailed information about it.

However, at the same time there really should be the library sorting option "from largest to smallest file (in KB/MB)", and vice versa. Because BookFusion sells subscription plans with storage space limitations, I believe that such a sorting option is a must.

Independently from that, there should be the library sorting option of "estimated time to read" (shortest to longest, and longest to shortest), and perhaps also (less ambiguously!) "number of words" (largest to smallest, and smallest to largest). This will be tough to implement, given that some books may be stored as image-only PDF files, but even imperfect sorting results would be a huge improvement over the current situation, where we have no such sorting options whatsoever (neither file size, nor time to read, nor number of words).

Originally Posted by skillachie

how is this valuable to you as a reader [...]? 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.

That would certainly be the main reason, but there could be others.

For example, when I start reading a book, I sometimes have access to various editions of it – say, 5 editions of the same book. To help me choose which of the 5 editions I'm actually going to read, information about file size might be useful.

Not by itself – I might first wish to browse through each of the 5 editions, flip a few pages and quickly skim a few chapters in each edition (such as to see how carefully or negligently the formatting in this or that edition was done), and then, giving consideration to the file size info among other aspects, I might finally choose the best edition for my needs, and delete the remaining 4 editions from my BookFusion library.

(For example, if I don't care about illustrations, I might prefer to read a text-only edition of that book; after all, illustrations/media attachments, unless they're integral part of the books' content, can make a book really bloated, and now you're suddenly starting to count in megabytes or even dozens of megabytes, instead of hundreds of kilobytes, which tends to be the standard "regular" e-book size.)

Originally Posted by skillachie

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.

Absolutely!

To me, this is a no-brainer. It's going to be better for both us as BookFusion users, and for you as BookFusion developers.

You can't possibly oblige everyone's individual tastes in such a vast universe as the universe of fonts is.

I'm stunned that mega-corporations like Amazon, Apple, and Google don't make this an obvious part of their decrepit e-reader software: freely choose your own font for reading your books!

Nope: corporations are extremely skimpy, and they only give their users 5 or 6 fonts to choose from (typically).

(To me, this is evidence of implicit contempt felt by corporations towards the users of their products. They realize they don't need to work hard to keep improving their software, in order to retain their clients' favor. They know full well that they have dozens of millions of users guaranteed, by default, without their having to move a finger. The result is crappy e-reader software, as it currently dominates on this planet.)