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kacir · 01-13-2010, 04:14 AM

My suggestions are very modest.

I wish it was possible to use *.otf fonts. There is possibility to convert an otf font to ttf, but you lose the hinting information and an otherwise excellent looking font looks very, very bad.
It might be as easy as enabling some option before compiling graphical environment or some library - PB uses fairy generic Linux stuff.

I wish that PB would cache pre-pagination of the book it has paginated before.
If you read several books at once, and you open a book you have read just a few hours ago, the device has to repaginate the book again and again and again. I think that the battery life could be extended this way. Another case when re-pagination is unnecessary is when you rotate the screen 90 degrees and then back. It repaginates the book twice. The same goes for opening the configuration menu. When you go to the configuration menu the book gets repaginated even if you haven't changed the font, line spacing or margins.
I think that processor cycles are very costly battery-wise.

In hardware I would like to have threaded holes in four corners of the device so you could mount the device in any kind of cover or [weather | bathtub] proof case.

01-13-2010, 04:14 AM	#24
kacir Wizard Posts: 3,463 Karma: 10684861 Join Date: May 2006 Device: PocketBook 360, before it was Sony Reader, cassiopeia A-20	My suggestions are very modest. I wish it was possible to use *.otf fonts. There is possibility to convert an otf font to ttf, but you lose the hinting information and an otherwise excellent looking font looks very, very bad. It might be as easy as enabling some option before compiling graphical environment or some library - PB uses fairy generic Linux stuff. I wish that PB would cache pre-pagination of the book it has paginated before. If you read several books at once, and you open a book you have read just a few hours ago, the device has to repaginate the book again and again and again. I think that the battery life could be extended this way. Another case when re-pagination is unnecessary is when you rotate the screen 90 degrees and then back. It repaginates the book twice. The same goes for opening the configuration menu. When you go to the configuration menu the book gets repaginated even if you haven't changed the font, line spacing or margins. I think that processor cycles are very costly battery-wise. In hardware I would like to have threaded holes in four corners of the device so you could mount the device in any kind of cover or [weather \| bathtub] proof case.