On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Roland Whitehead <rol...@quru.com> wrote:
> On 30 Apr 2010, at 09:46, Juhana Jauhiainen wrote: > > > Changing font size is a very useful feature so it should be included. > What comes to scrolling, I was planning to use paging instead of a > continuous scrollable textview. When using a book reader with scrolling I > often loose the spot I was at when I need to scroll, but of course automatic > scrolling wouldn't have the same problem. Do most people prefer scrolling or > paging? > > We have been playing around with ePub books quite a lot this week (we have > to be publishing around 400 a year from now on) and so I've been trying all > sorts of devices. The ones that I like are those that page. Those that > scroll are good when there is no choice (like with the EPUBReader Firefox > plugin that's available for Firefox on the N900 which is otherwise pretty > cool) but I definitely like the paging devices. iBooks would be the best at > this so far for reading but its ruined by Apple playing big brother and not > letting you download .epub files from anywhere else but (you guessed) the > Apple Appstore or via (you also guessed) iTunes. So please also make it > really easy to work with URLs or local files and if it could be set up as a > browser helper app then you could click on an .epub URL in the microB and > have it open in your app. > Opening local files would be useful and perhaps the library could be just a folder in MyDocs so it would be easy to copy books to it. > > A feature I'd like to see is a way for eBooks to open at the last page they > were on when last opened. It might work if you only ever open one book but > if you open many it would help if it always went to that last page that you > were on in that particular book. It could be automatic or it could be manual > (UI hint - some people ruin printed books by folding over the top outer > corner of the page, I use a post-it note or a business card). > > This is something I am planning to include. > An index of annotations would be good. I have printed books with lots of > mini-post-it notes sticking out, each one indicating something of particular > interest with one or two words written on it. Some people use those clever > colour coded post-it book-marks. They are book specific as opposed to > bookmarks for all eBooks. Could annotations be tagged so that you can filter > annotations by the tags? > > Color coding annotations and bookmarks would be very useful and there definitely should be an easy way to browse them. Tags would be nice but I'm not going to promise too much. > Are you going to do this in Qt and C, C++ or PyQt? > > I'm going to do this with C++ and Qt.
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