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Originally Posted by scottjl
the cover display is simply a gimmick. works great for ebooks, but i have many white papers and technical documents that don't have covers. so what do i see? just a very small scale title page, impossible to read. cover display is pretty, but useless. try to navigate a large library (i have over 550 ebooks loaded), endless scrolling. list view is far more manageable.
i agree though, apple doesn't have to be first, and doesn't even have to be the best. else they'll kill their market of 3rd party apps. "good enough" will meet most user's needs, and allow room for 3rd party apps to distinguish themselves with additional features.
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Wouldn't you be organizing and reading them in another app then? Like goodreader? I am separating 'reading material' and 'documents' with apps. Now I use stanza for PDF-magazines, PDF-travel guides, books. But my reference material and other things I have plow through are organized in good reader. And for reading material, I sure would like a cover collection. And guess what iBooks is for?
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Originally Posted by bob1xxx
Honestly it was usual dumb bitter short site apple move not to include PDF support on the Imaxie because of the adobe wars. There as so many pdf reader clients other than adobe's because of the color/size of the Imaxie screen it would make a superior reader of technical drawings/graphics / or pdf scanned historic documents, etc..... on top of all the free PG books, etc.... . Its about time apple got off their silly high horse and added pdf support.
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Wow, you don't even TRY to come up with an intelligent argument are you? iPad had pdf-support right from the start. There are pdf-readers in the appstore for the iPad BEFORE the launch of the iPad...