On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:50:10PM +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote: > On Jan 27, 2008, at 11:09 , Klaus Weidner wrote: > > > > I've now read the old thread, and I think there's some confusion > > between > > a "page" being a screenful versus being the paper sheet to which I've > > contributed, sorry. > > Wouldn't a "real" EBook reader be much more useful than displaying > PDFs? You know, one that reflows pages automatically, where I can > adjust font size etc. Is this planned or even in existence already?
I think these are two quite independent areas, and it would of course be useful to have good support for reflowable books. The evince-based reader appears fundamentally designed to work with non-reflowable pre-laid-out text, and changing that would be difficult. Instead of having a completely separate application, would it make sense to enhance the "Browse" functionality to work with e-books? Converters to HTML should be available for most common formats. In order to be a nice book reader, it would be good to have more features such as better table-of-contents handling and bookmarks that remember the position in the document, and both of these would also be useful for web pages. It's a blurry line between a web page being read offline and an e-book, especially for the XO's intended use for kids who are likely to have spotty Internet access. I'm using the Scrapbook extension for Firefox a lot (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/427), and I think something along those lines would work fairly well for reflowable e-books. Clicking a link to an e-book file would convert it to HTML on the fly, storing it in the scrapbook, where it would remain available for later reading. -Klaus _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
