Wanted features

[Moonbase59]

Originally Posted by Moonbase59

- Markdown. Shouldn’t be complicated to do. Ideally accepting some basic fields from the YAML Header, like title, subtitle, author, date and lang ("en-us") for better sorting and selection of dictionary and hyphenator. Pocketbooks can already show pure text and also HTML documents.

See also my KOReader Feature Request.

[JupitersIcyMoons]

So, I have a Pocketbook Era that I quite like. I read books in several languages, so it’s important to me to have dictionaries that function well.

The built-in dictionaries on the Pocketbook (in the .dic format) are a nightmare. They don’t reliably look up conjugated verbs, for one thing. I just looked up the French verb “comporterait” and it returned the noun “comportement.” In German, looking up “begrüßte” returns “begründen,” which is a completely different word. In addition, the available dictionaries are not very comprehensive in terms of vocabulary.

For most books, I use KoReader, which allows me to install my own dictionaries that can do all these very basic things.

But sometimes I want to use the Era’s native reading app, and the poor-quality dictionary functionality is a real disappointment.

There are so many things I like about Pocketbook (ease of Koreader installation, easy link to Dropbox, built-in Onleihe app, and more). But please fix the dictionaries!

[ebichuman]

I recently got my pocketbook verse pro and it has been a great experience. Though I wish we could have the landscape mode in menus as well and the ability to lock landscape mode. It is much more comfortable to hold it in landscape due to the placement of the buttons. It is kind of awkward to hold in portrait while one finger on the buttons to change the page.
Also the ability to have 2 columns would make the reading experience so much better for me. It lets me read faster with less page turns. I already use it with the smallest font possible, but going even smaller, 1-2 points and having 2 columns would be a great addition!

[VulcanRidr]

Originally Posted by VulcanRidr

I'm still hoping for landscape-only/portrait-only auto rotation, since I have, on may ocasions, had it sitting on a flat surface, and it flipped from portrait mode to landscape mode, which really messes up the pagination.

I guess after 2 years, the devs are never going to implement landscape-only or portrait-only modes for autorotation. I am wondering if there is, then, a way to dial down the sensitivity of the reader so it doesn't arbitrarily flip modes.

Then again, I have not had an update for months. Does this mean that development for the PB700 is dead?

[DJUNGELSKOG]

I have a suspicion that pocketbook devs read this forum because my previous request was fixed (make my pocketbook compatible with my shokz headphones). Thank you pocketbook devs, this makes me really happy because I use the TTS feature a lot.

I have a new request now: it would be lovely if book covers worked properly as screensavers, like they did before. I'm on the latest firmware version on my verse pro. When I have this option checked in the settings, I open a book and I expect that it's cover would be set as a screensaver. But it just doesn't happen, the screensaver keeps displaying a cover of a different book that I've finished a while ago. I'd be happy if this rather basic functionality was fixed.

I've tried this both with DRM-infested and DRM-free books with the same result.


This has something to do with caching. I have a weather app that generates weather forecasts to be used as screensavers, and I have verified that it does indeed generate correct screensavers. However, my device keeps displaying the old weather forecast when it's asleep even if the selected screensaver file contains an updated version.