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Old 01-30-2010, 08:40 PM   #30
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Originally Posted by dmaul1114 View Post
That's a pretty good idea.

Have the portable device area have multiple subforums. Maybe something like:

Apple iPhone/iTouch/iPad
Other Smart Phones
PDAs
Other Tablets
PC/Mac E-book Reading Software (for laptops/netbooks which are portable)


Just seems like the site focuses too much on dedicated reading devices which doesn't fit being called Mobileread since any portable device that one can read e-books on fits that title as it's all mobile reading of e-books.

I like this idea - I'd organize it something like the following:

Dedicated Devices:
  • Kindle
  • K1
  • K2
  • Sony
  • Pocket Edition
  • Touch Edition
  • Daily Edition
  • PRS 505
  • Older devices
  • Nook
  • iRex
  • DR1000S
  • DR800S and DR800SG
  • iLiad
  • All other devices supporting only Adobe CS4 DRM listed here separately
  • All other devices supporting other formats listed here by main format

  • And under non-dedicated devices:
    • iPhone OS
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Android OS
    • Entourage Edge
    • Alex
    • Whatever Lenovo is coming out with when it does
    • Windows Mobile OS

    No idea if this kind of sweeping change is feasible, but I've long felt mobileread simply had too many forums, and of the wrong categorization. After all, most mobile devices which run the same OS tend to have the same kinds of problems. It makes sense to group them. In addition, readers which use the same DRM tend to have similar problems. Multi-organizational structures FTW!
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