IF you could add one function to your Kindle...

[JSWolf]

The one thing I'd like to add to the K3 would be ePub support via ADE.

[catsittingstill]

If I could add one function it would be cross-document pdf search. It can already search within a single pdf but I want it to be able to search across all pdfs the way it searches across all .azw files.

Then I would load scientific journal articles on it. :-)

Library books would be a very cool second, though.

And you can *already* read your e-mail on a kindle--just use the web browser. Slow, admittedly--but functional.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by catsittingstill

If I could add one function it would be cross-document pdf search. It can already search within a single pdf but I want it to be able to search across all pdfs the way it searches across all .azw files.

Then I would load scientific journal articles on it. :-)

It does search PDF metadata I think (or at least title/author), but it appears PDF content text search is done on the fly using Adobe's SDK. Yeah, that would be nice.

I'd add PDF link support too - for better navigation of TOC's etc.

[tomsem]

I'd like better TOC navigation. Probably not my top one but it keeps coming up, particularly for technical books with huge TOC's.

With ePub readers, the TOC function usually accesses something called the 'NCX TOC', which supports TOC hierarchy and simple expand/collapse/up/down/jumpto. Kindle's mobi format is supposed to have this structure as well, but on Kindle there is no way to access it, even when it is there (as publishing guidelines require).

By contrast, Navigating the HTML TOC is tedious because you always wind up at the very top and it often extends over several pages. And it doesn't function at all to show your current location in the book, in fact it BECOMES your current location (ick), and inserts itself into the stack of visited locations which BACK button accesses (ick again). TOC is supposed to be a lookup, not a reading destination.

I'd like a single button access to the NCX TOC (ALT+T or something), which would pop up a scrollable window showing only the top level TOC entries, expanded as necessary to show your current location, highlighted. joystick/rocker would then allow you to navigate up/down/collapse/expand/jumpto a new location, BACK would return you to where you were.

If this were available functionally, especially if there were a dedicated button for it, I'd drop the requirement that books also have an HTML TOC since it would be a completely redundant waste of space.

[dreamsgate]

I would like a very simple notebook and a simple calendar, if the calendar syncs with google calendar even better, but not overly required.

[Kindle Addict]

Originally Posted by TomF

In this NYTimes article the other day there is speculation about Amazon looking into other hardware possibilities.

"According to people with direct knowledge of the company’s plans...“There was talk of music players and other electronics.”" This would tie in with Amazon's music business. If they go in this direction I could see more music capabilities coming to the Kindle in future hardware versions.

Kindle watch - like this!

[Valhalla]

epub with drm
Showing the time at the top while I'm reading

[Juliette]

Epub support (ADE is not always a problem )
A note-taking features (exportable notes, in decent format too- txt or rtf would be super)

[Zanshin]

Picture viewer navigation.

[foreverjuly]

I wish it could help me find water underground. Then I could finally get rid of my divining rods.

[mike_bike_kite]

I like all the above plus a picture folder to put the screen saver images I want to see. I'd also like some form of note taking with copy and paste from these notes so I could write an email offline and then just copy and paste parts when I connect. There could be an editable CopyAndPaste.txt file ie

Holiday:
Having a wonderful time in Venezuela and wish you were here.

Signature:
Mike Robinson
(44) 020 1234 5678

When you press SYM then there'd be a new option for paste which would list:

• Last highlighted
• Holiday
• Signature

[TallMomof2]

Originally Posted by tomsem

Library eBook selection may actually be getting worse (I'll try to find where I read this earlier today...). Only a small fraction of patrons have ebook readers, it doesn't make sense to move quickly to ebooks, with budgets as limited as they generally are.

This is quite shortsighted because all of the library ebooks can be read on PCs and most likely are read on PCs by a majority of patrons.

[TallMomof2]

What I would like on the Kindle:

1. Library books but that would require Amazon licensing Adobe DRM and I don't see that happening. Since there aren't too many library books that I am interested in it's not that big a deal.

2. Covers, I would love to have a cover view of my ebooks. I really liked that about the Kobo reader (but not enough to keep it).

3. Improved PDF functions. TOC and better zoom.

4. Synchronization with Google calendar with alarms. I use Google calendars on my phone and in my email program, the Kindle seems like a natural extension for me.

[TomF]

Originally Posted by carld

Aside from ePub or some other file format support that everyone wants.

Just quoting one of the rules that was specified, which some people may have missed. Please don't let this discussion degrade into yet another debate about one format over another.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Juliette

Epub support (ADE is not always a problem )
A note-taking features (exportable notes, in decent format too- txt or rtf would be super)

If it's not ADE, then I think Amazon would not be above using yet another different DRM. So if we have ADE, we will at least know the DRM will be compatible.