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Not listed in order of personal importance, but all things I'd like to see.
1. ePub support, please.
2. More font choices and easy justification selection so that I can make the books look/read how I'd like them to. This should be a big selling point for ereaders and I can't understand why it isn't developed more. If I buy a print book I have VERY limited choices on how it is presented unless it's a popular classic with multiple iterations/publishers. Being able to make a book be presented in a preferred fashion could be a big selling point for ereaders.
3. An option or setting in my preferences that opens a book to the cover and not the first chapter. I realize that the publishers insert a tag that tells the ebook where to open, and I hate this. I miss the cover, toc, any review comments, lists of other works, etc, and everything else that comes before the first chapter. This is part of the book reading experience we're missing unless we open the book and then select to go to cover and page through. I'd like to be able to change one preference or setting that then does this for ALL of my books. It doesn't require the publisher to change anything...the Kindle will simply realize via the setting that when I open a book I want to go to the cover. It's not that hard and should be an option.
4. Page Numbers. I would like to have the option to turn on page numbers in place of the current % that we get on the bottom bar. A simple way to do this without hardcoding a total # of pages per book is to base it on the number of page turns based on current font size. Thus, if I'm reading a book at the smallest font size it may say something like "Page 129 / 345" where as if I use the largest available font size it would say "Page 36 / 678". It's a simple calculation based on font size and total # of page flips needed to get to the last position in the ebook. This would make ereading on the Kindle much more natural to me. I hate talking to a friend with a Nook (which has page #s!!!!) about a book we're both reading and he tells me he's on page 210 and I say I'm at 31%. It's such a simple addition and it's always been one I trumpet when these questions about what we want in the next firmware come up on different kindle boards. NOTE - this is obviously an arbitrary system of determining page #s and isn't to be used for reference in text books, etc. I look at is being akin to different page #s in different versions of the same publication. I may be on page 100 in the hardcover, which may be page 153 in the mass market paperback version of the same book. It's really more about making the reading experience more natural. I hope I explained that correctly.
That's it for now....I'm sure I have a few other gripes I'll remember in a bit.
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