MobileRead Forums - View Single Post - Academics eye the Kobo Aura One, but need better PDF support. Letter to Kobo-ville

pinktank · 08-29-2016, 03:38 AM

I'd be willing to pay extra for this feature, hell, we could even start a crowdsourcing campaign for the programmer at Kobo

The Kobo Aura One, thanks to it's size, is what a lot of academic readers have been waiting for. We each have hundreds of scanned book excerpts and articles in pdf format, and we have been wishing for an ereader that can deal with them since the first ereader came out. The one is the only hope so far thanks to its screen size.

We just need the following:

Highlight and bookmark, indicating highlighted/bookmarked pages on the navigation bar
Maintain zoom while flipping pages without panning around or losing location, could be a lock icon in the corner or something. This is to crop out the margins while reading consistent scans. Right now it goes back to top left after flipping a page(some pdf readers allow you to double click a text area to automatically do this)
While reading a zoomed crop, auto-hide the area thumbnail, but display it when you single tap the screen, and allow tapping on the area thumbnail to move location without dragging through.

Example: If the pdf is a scan of a book spread with a page on each side, I could zoom in to just have the left page in the canvas, tap once on the screen to bring up the little thumbnail, click on the right side of the thumbnail to move the canvas to the right side, and when done with that side, tap the side of the screen to move to the next pdf page. This would also work to horizontally split display large textbook pages without the hassle of dragging.

We read for a living -not to mention write a significant portion of your non-fiction section- and would just really appreciate the above additions. I have culled some other requests as we wanted to keep it to the essential ones.

Thank you for at least moving the trend towards hardback sized readers, in the worst case, we will wait a little longer for another manufacturer who already has pdf support to make a device with the new display.

Here is an old review where they point out that the opensource KOReader supports all of this, and that pocketbook inkpad has many of these pdf issues covered under a 'reading mode' popup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsJizVAMpDQ

08-29-2016, 03:38 AM	#1
pinktank Enthusiast Posts: 26 Karma: 17498 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	Academics eye the Kobo Aura One, but need better PDF support. Letter to Kobo-ville I'd be willing to pay extra for this feature, hell, we could even start a crowdsourcing campaign for the programmer at Kobo The Kobo Aura One, thanks to it's size, is what a lot of academic readers have been waiting for. We each have hundreds of scanned book excerpts and articles in pdf format, and we have been wishing for an ereader that can deal with them since the first ereader came out. The one is the only hope so far thanks to its screen size. We just need the following: Highlight and bookmark, indicating highlighted/bookmarked pages on the navigation bar Maintain zoom while flipping pages without panning around or losing location, could be a lock icon in the corner or something. This is to crop out the margins while reading consistent scans. Right now it goes back to top left after flipping a page(some pdf readers allow you to double click a text area to automatically do this) While reading a zoomed crop, auto-hide the area thumbnail, but display it when you single tap the screen, and allow tapping on the area thumbnail to move location without dragging through. Example: If the pdf is a scan of a book spread with a page on each side, I could zoom in to just have the left page in the canvas, tap once on the screen to bring up the little thumbnail, click on the right side of the thumbnail to move the canvas to the right side, and when done with that side, tap the side of the screen to move to the next pdf page. This would also work to horizontally split display large textbook pages without the hassle of dragging. We read for a living -not to mention write a significant portion of your non-fiction section- and would just really appreciate the above additions. I have culled some other requests as we wanted to keep it to the essential ones. Thank you for at least moving the trend towards hardback sized readers, in the worst case, we will wait a little longer for another manufacturer who already has pdf support to make a device with the new display. Here is an old review where they point out that the opensource KOReader supports all of this, and that pocketbook inkpad has many of these pdf issues covered under a 'reading mode' popup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsJizVAMpDQ Last edited by pinktank; 08-29-2016 at 07:43 AM.