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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Or maybe we'll just get over the need to display our books, a fairly artificial way to "present" ourselves to others anyway, and find some other way to decorate our homes and spaces...
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I don't need a way to display my books as a method of self-promotion, but it'd be nice to let my friends browse through my collection to find one they'd like to read.
For that matter, it'd be nice to let my kids browse through my collection. (Erm. Most of it, anyway.) Right now, it's a mess, spread across several folders, organized by categories that only make sense to me. I could throw them all in one big folder, but that'd be nightmarish, and still wouldn't help anyone find ones they're interested in.
Because of filetype differences, people can't even use filesize as an estimate of book length. There's no font and book-shape difference to indicate genre; I'd have to find a way to tag those details.
There's no simple way to attach a "cover image" to each ebook; each filetype needs a different program to do that with. (And I don't think anything will make txt files accept a cover.) Windows' "thumbnail" view will show the front page--which for Feedbooks PDFs is pretty boring, and it won't show anything for filetypes it doesn't read because they're only accessible through the portable reader. (I'm not sure it'd show a cover image for ePubs or LRFs anyway, or if it'd just show the filetype icon.)
Book display, even just for family, would be useful.