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Originally Posted by Dulin's Books
which are addressed with several- want to say many but it doesnt sound right- current ebook readers. These guys all think kindle and nook and ibooks are the only game in town. want to fix ereaders? Start reviewing the ones out here that get it right already.
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Unfortunately none of them do. The only reader to offer hyphenation (FBReader) also fails to follow important parts of the spec. There certainly is a hole in the market waiting to be filled, and Apple's lamentable iBooks has only made that even more obvious.
While I'm not that interested in seeing what passages were read by Joe Bloggs of Bugtussle, there is an argument to be made for providing an outward-facing data-structure to expose markup that the user has made in a book, though this is as much a standards issue as anything else. We're starting to see truly useful management and collaboration systems emerge for PDFs (see
Mendeley for instance) as a result of the more advanced state of the PDF spec.