Feature for Managing Multiple Simultaneous Book Viewers ?

Swen Johnson · 12-21-2012, 06:13 PM

When reading on my PC, I'd like to have something that can track multiple calibre viewers, each potentially open on a different book, and each at a different location within it's book. The idea is to be able to close all the viewer windows at once, and subsequently re-open them all at the same book(s)/positions on demand.

Sort of like the Session Manager functionality in Firefox.

Does anything like this already exist ?

-- Swen

kovidgoyal · 12-21-2012, 11:19 PM

No, nothing like this exists. I'm curious what's your use case? Browsing some kind of reference text?

Swen Johnson · 12-22-2012, 02:10 AM

It's a common situation for me: reading a chapter in a coding (reference) book that runs for several pages, with specific examples interspersed between paragraphs of prose. In these cases I first do a shallow read of the entire chapter, then try to do some exercises on my own, referring back to examples only when needed.

Using bookmarks in these situations feels clunky compared to "ALT+TAB"ing. A single viewer with bookmarks is like having to rewind & forward fast a (linear) tape, while jumping around between windows is more "random access".

Being able to close all (or multiple) viewers and bringing them back all at once is useful when I want to take a break and do something else for a few hours (or days).

12-21-2012, 06:13 PM	#1
Swen Johnson Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	Feature for Managing Multiple Simultaneous Book Viewers ? When reading on my PC, I'd like to have something that can track multiple calibre viewers, each potentially open on a different book, and each at a different location within it's book. The idea is to be able to close all the viewer windows at once, and subsequently re-open them all at the same book(s)/positions on demand. Sort of like the Session Manager functionality in Firefox. Does anything like this already exist ? -- Swen

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12-21-2012, 11:19 PM	#2
kovidgoyal creator of calibre Posts: 45,170 Karma: 27110894 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Mumbai, India Device: Various	No, nothing like this exists. I'm curious what's your use case? Browsing some kind of reference text?

12-22-2012, 02:10 AM	#3
Swen Johnson Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2012 Device: Kindle	It's a common situation for me: reading a chapter in a coding (reference) book that runs for several pages, with specific examples interspersed between paragraphs of prose. In these cases I first do a shallow read of the entire chapter, then try to do some exercises on my own, referring back to examples only when needed. Using bookmarks in these situations feels clunky compared to "ALT+TAB"ing. A single viewer with bookmarks is like having to rewind & forward fast a (linear) tape, while jumping around between windows is more "random access". Being able to close all (or multiple) viewers and bringing them back all at once is useful when I want to take a break and do something else for a few hours (or days).

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