[chaley]

Originally Posted by Jim Chapman

Email received - and I will answer just as soon as my kids let me at the PC with the mail software on it .

Thanks.

Originally Posted by Jim Chapman

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).

Embarrassed to admit it, but both my wife and I like to know where we are in a book. Not having any page numbers raises the imprecision to 'somewhere in a chapter'. This can be very imprecise in books that have long chapters.

I freely admit that the request is a comfort feature, and not important in the grand scheme of things.

Originally Posted by Jim Chapman

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.

Modulo some problems with Freda dying occasionally in this situation, you are right. FYI: The deaths seem to occur if I am unlucky enough to page forward while pagination is in the process of running out of memory. I wish I could be more precise...

Originally Posted by Jim Chapman

The long term solution is to wait for Windows Mobile 7, which will resolve these memory-management issues.

I suspect that unless some good soul at xda-developers takes pity on us dinosaurs, my old HTC Universal that is now my wife's dedicated ereader will never see WM7. In fact, I suspect that my TD2 won't either, but that is less of an issue for me as I read almost exclusively on my Sony.

Originally Posted by Jim Chapman

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 ...

I would be content with an "add book to bookshelf" dialog that permits me to navigate the folder structure to a particular book. Calibre is a fine library management system that lets me set up a folder structure that suits me, and I don't see much benefit in taking your time to replicate what it already does well.

Originally Posted by Jim Chapman

Thanks for using Freda,

Thank you for giving so freely of your time and creativity. If you should decide to set up a means to donate to Freda's support, I would be happy to contribute.

Charles