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Originally Posted by chaley
I sent you email about testing V1.1. If you didn't get it (spam filter issue probably), PM me to let me know.
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Email received - and I will answer just as soon as my kids let me at the PC with the mail software on it
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Originally Posted by chaley
Suggestion: my wife is currently reading a long book, New York, by Edward Rutherfurd, that fails to paginate. I have tried all the obvious things to make more memory available, to no avail. If pagination fails, is it reasonable to paginate the chapter (using the TOC to define chapters) and provide page numbers for that? Or if not the chapter, perhaps the EPUB segment? In this latter case, one would need all of the segment number, the current page number, and the last page number.
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I'm not sure whether there's a benefit to this. Of course, internally, Freda does just what you describe (since every EPUB segment begins a new page, internally a page number is the combination of EPUB segment number and then page-within-segment. It's only when I come to display it on screen that I turn it into a page-within-book number, by summing up the numbers of pages in all prior segments). It should be perfectly possible to navigate around a book that is too large to paginate fully (either using Go...->Go To Chapter (which actually does go-to-epub-segment) or using Go...->Table of Contexts (which uses the EPUB table of contents data). As/when you reach a chapter that Freda couldn't paginate, Freda should paginate it for you (and unload some other chapter(s) from memory, to make room). Only 'Find...' doesn't work in a book that can't paginate fully, and there is a sensible reason for that.
The long term solution is to wait for Windows Mobile 7, which will resolve these memory-management issues.
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Originally Posted by chaley
And as long as I am here -- in V1.0 the value of the checkbox 'Search Subfolders in Library' is not saved. Result: the library is empty next time one goes back to it. I am working around this by using Calibre to put the titles in one directory, but that has its own problems, such as very long file names and overly-large directories. |
Yes, I've come to the conclusion I need to sort out the library screen to make it more flexible around selecting directories and filtering the list of books. I really don't want to build fully-featured library-management stuff into Freda (it would make the program much larger and more complicated, to add a feature that many people wouldn't use). But I can improve the situation ...
Thanks for using Freda,
Jim