MapleRead - eBook Reader and Server for iOS - Page 10

cedhax · 12-02-2016, 03:14 PM

The "Date" column of a book in Calibre Library View is supposed, I think, to be the date when the book was added to Calibre. However, since Calibre lets me edit the "Date" arbitrarily, I can really use it for any date of my personal preference, including the date of my first encounter with the book, perhaps well before the creation of the Calibre app itself. MR's "Prefer Calibre Date" feature (when turned on) plus "Update Metadata (only)" really opens up another useful way of interacting with Calibre.

On the other hand, (for non-calibre-originated books) it is useful to know easily the few books I most recently added to MR. MR's "Prefer Calibre Date" feature when turned off (by default) serves that purpose well too.

sbaylor · 12-03-2016, 01:43 AM

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Originally Posted by ShellShock

I have now reproduced the problem with the bundled AAIW, but I have only managed to do this once. This is what I did (IPad Mini 2, latest IOS):
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Thanks for investigating this.

Thanks for the detailed report. Unfortunately, we still can't reproduce the problem. But we'll keep trying.

sbaylor · 12-03-2016, 01:47 AM

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Originally Posted by cedhax

"Prefer Calibre Date" is a switch sitting right below "Auto-Open Last Book Read" under MapleRead in the Settings app, assuming that you have already updated to v1.6.1.

Thanks cedhax for answering the question. Today, we've added a related screenshot. See What's New in MapleRead 1.6.1 again. (Of course, the setting applies to all editions of MapleRead, and not just SE.)

slantybard · 12-03-2016, 09:11 PM

Yes, many thanks to cedhax for pointing me to the correct place for the date preferences.

I have a future feature request for MR: would it be possible to either swipe or have an arrow button to navigate between books while in the info window? For example, I open book A's info to show the metadata and related information. It would be great if I could then swipe or arrow click to the next title's (book B in the sorted list) information without going back to the list and reselecting book B info.

Thanks for considering this feature.

sbaylor · 12-05-2016, 02:06 PM

Thanks to slantybard for his/her interesting feature suggestion above for a new convenient way to navigate Book Info | Metadata.

I guess this is perhaps partly motivated by slantybard's need to verify that the metadata update indeed works as expected in MR 1.6.1.

sbaylor · 12-07-2016, 09:40 PM

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Originally Posted by adrian1944

Could you consider some form of cropping tool, similar to the one in goodreader to be available for when there is space around the page on the screen or where the book has too much space around the text on the page

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Originally Posted by adrian1944

I was thinking of the ability to stretch pdfs to the full extent of the screen
Epub formatting seems great

We've been kept thinking about how to improve your PDF reading experience with MapleRead. Trimming surrounding space is good sometimes, but not good enough. For example, if you want a typical portrait-oriented PDF page to fit to the device width in landscape orientation, it will be impossible to see the full page at the same time, whether there is surrounding space trimming or not.

Well, can we do something better? Yes, we can. Stay tuned for the upcoming release of MapleRead, version 1.6.2, available on the App Store soon!

cedhax · 12-10-2016, 02:40 AM

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Originally Posted by sbaylor

We've been kept thinking about how to improve your PDF reading experience with MapleRead. Trimming surrounding space is good sometimes, but not good enough. For example, if you want a typical portrait-oriented PDF page to fit to the device width in landscape orientation, it will be impossible to see the full page at the same time, whether there is surrounding space trimming or not.

Well, can we do something better? Yes, we can. Stay tuned for the upcoming release of MapleRead, version 1.6.2, available on the App Store soon!

Thanks for keep working on the problem.

Neither do I like trimming surrounding space. For PDF books that already have reasonably small margin space, that does not really help. Looking forward to your better solution!

bookwormboy · 12-12-2016, 01:11 AM

It's very nice that MapleRead supports EPUB3 and vertical writing books. I would appreciate if you can consider adding more Asian fonts.

sbaylor · 12-14-2016, 06:12 PM

Thanks for the suggestion. More Asian fonts will be added to the Text Font and Heading Font menus in the next version of MapleRead.

bookwormboy · 12-16-2016, 01:50 AM

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Originally Posted by sbaylor

Thanks for the suggestion. More Asian fonts will be added to the Text Font and Heading Font menus in the next version of MapleRead.

Thank you! Look forward to the new version.

slantybard · 12-19-2016, 10:34 PM

Hi sbaylor, I have another feature request for you to consider: that the search function can search all metadata instead of just title, author, and series.

As always thanks for the best iOS ereader app around!

romad · 12-20-2016, 12:20 AM

I have a question regarding PC Upload. Is there a way to choose which set to upload a book? Right now they all go to the default "Ungrouped" set so I then have to take extra steps to get the book into the correct set.

sbaylor · 12-22-2016, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by slantybard

Hi sbaylor, I have another feature request for you to consider: that the search function can search all metadata instead of just title, author, and series.

As always thanks for the best iOS ereader app around!

Thank you for your feature suggestion. I think the only additional field to look for is really "description", as there are already tag filters in Library. The catch is that a search might result in more hits than one wants. Any comments from other users?

sbaylor · 12-22-2016, 01:31 AM

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Originally Posted by romad

I have a question regarding PC Upload. Is there a way to choose which set to upload a book? Right now they all go to the default "Ungrouped" set so I then have to take extra steps to get the book into the correct set.

In fact, any newly imported books, by any method including PC Upload, always go into book sets "All Books" and "Ungrouped". If you sort by "Date Added", then all recently imported books are displayed at the front of the book list. You can then easily move/copy them into other book sets.

Having said that, I understand that it can be more convenient sometimes to be able to specify another book set as the target book set. We'll consider this feature for a future release.

sbaylor · 12-22-2016, 01:57 AM

What's New in MapleRead 1.6.2

Introduced Prefer-Zoom for PDF reading:
Prefer-Zoom can automatically zoom and pan to where you prefer when you go to a new page. It saves you the hassle of repeatedly setting the same preferred zoom factor and initial reading position per book for more comfortable reading experience in portrait and landscape orientation respectively.
Enhanced the built-in OPDS/HTML server to give better coverage of book sets and custom/default ordering
Enabled browsing of Book Info Metadata View of each book sequentially by left/right swiping
Enhanced the layout of Book Info Metadata View mostly for iPhone
Added East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts and South Asian fonts for Text Font and Heading Font
Added tips for first installation and upgrade installation
Addressed some device rotation issue for iOS 10

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If you have a moment, writing an App Store review for MapleRead really helps. Thank you!

12-02-2016, 03:14 PM	#136
cedhax Addict Posts: 288 Karma: 1546488 Join Date: Jan 2016 Device: ipad	To prefer or not to prefer The "Date" column of a book in Calibre Library View is supposed, I think, to be the date when the book was added to Calibre. However, since Calibre lets me edit the "Date" arbitrarily, I can really use it for any date of my personal preference, including the date of my first encounter with the book, perhaps well before the creation of the Calibre app itself. MR's "Prefer Calibre Date" feature (when turned on) plus "Update Metadata (only)" really opens up another useful way of interacting with Calibre. On the other hand, (for non-calibre-originated books) it is useful to know easily the few books I most recently added to MR. MR's "Prefer Calibre Date" feature when turned off (by default) serves that purpose well too.

12-12-2016, 01:11 AM	#143
bookwormboy Junior Member Posts: 6 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2016 Device: none	Asian fonts It's very nice that MapleRead supports EPUB3 and vertical writing books. I would appreciate if you can consider adding more Asian fonts.

12-22-2016, 01:57 AM	#150
sbaylor Addict Posts: 218 Karma: 32081 Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: USA Device: iPad, iPad mini, iPhone	MapleRead 1.6.2 available What's New in MapleRead 1.6.2 Introduced Prefer-Zoom for PDF reading: Prefer-Zoom can automatically zoom and pan to where you prefer when you go to a new page. It saves you the hassle of repeatedly setting the same preferred zoom factor and initial reading position per book for more comfortable reading experience in portrait and landscape orientation respectively. Enhanced the built-in OPDS/HTML server to give better coverage of book sets and custom/default ordering Enabled browsing of Book Info Metadata View of each book sequentially by left/right swiping Enhanced the layout of Book Info Metadata View mostly for iPhone Added East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) fonts and South Asian fonts for Text Font and Heading Font Added tips for first installation and upgrade installation Addressed some device rotation issue for iOS 10 ---- Item #1 addresses Post #141. Item #3 address Post #139. Item #5 address Post #143. Item #7 address Post #130. ---- If you have a moment, writing an App Store review for MapleRead really helps. Thank you!

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12-03-2016, 09:11 PM	#139
slantybard my parent's oops... Posts: 493 Karma: 1477572 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Vx->Handera->Clie-> Axim->505->650->KPW/Aura ->L2->iOS/CBW	Yes, many thanks to cedhax for pointing me to the correct place for the date preferences. I have a future feature request for MR: would it be possible to either swipe or have an arrow button to navigate between books while in the info window? For example, I open book A's info to show the metadata and related information. It would be great if I could then swipe or arrow click to the next title's (book B in the sorted list) information without going back to the list and reselecting book B info. Thanks for considering this feature.

12-05-2016, 02:06 PM	#140
sbaylor Addict Posts: 218 Karma: 32081 Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: USA Device: iPad, iPad mini, iPhone	Thanks to slantybard for his/her interesting feature suggestion above for a new convenient way to navigate Book Info \| Metadata. I guess this is perhaps partly motivated by slantybard's need to verify that the metadata update indeed works as expected in MR 1.6.1.

12-14-2016, 06:12 PM	#144
sbaylor Addict Posts: 218 Karma: 32081 Join Date: Dec 2015 Location: USA Device: iPad, iPad mini, iPhone	Thanks for the suggestion. More Asian fonts will be added to the Text Font and Heading Font menus in the next version of MapleRead.

12-19-2016, 10:34 PM	#146
slantybard my parent's oops... Posts: 493 Karma: 1477572 Join Date: Feb 2009 Device: Vx->Handera->Clie-> Axim->505->650->KPW/Aura ->L2->iOS/CBW	Hi sbaylor, I have another feature request for you to consider: that the search function can search all metadata instead of just title, author, and series. As always thanks for the best iOS ereader app around!

12-20-2016, 12:20 AM	#147
romad U.S. Air Force, Retired Posts: 210 Karma: 5212 Join Date: Oct 2014 Location: Prescott, AZ Device: iPad Mini 5 & Mini 6	I have a question regarding PC Upload. Is there a way to choose which set to upload a book? Right now they all go to the default "Ungrouped" set so I then have to take extra steps to get the book into the correct set.