[maemo-developers] GSoC 2010, eBook reader. Looking for feedback and ideas.

[From: Peter Romero]

portrait mode ("full page view") versus
landscape mode ("part page view")

Both view options are important. ! (by small devices like n900)
For orientation i need the full page view (portrait mode) but
to read the text i prefer landscape mode.
If i like to show some text on a N770 or N810 i don't
try this in the full page view any more :-))
... because the text is then to small.
But to find the text in a eBook without seeing the whole
page and no Bookmark is a very hard and unconfined undertaken.

When i read a normal book i don't care much about the page number.
After i have read a book and try to find something i already read,
i remember if it was in the beginning, the middle or at the end,
which chapter (titel) and very importend "!! the structure of the  
page !!".

Changing the font-size  would be a nice feature but it is just good for
simple text ebooks.

There is also much to say about bookmarks but i have already written  
to much :-))

saludos

peter romero

Am 30.04.2010 um 23:08 schrieb Ville M. Vainio:

> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 10:51 PM, Mikhail Gusarov
> <dottedmag at dottedmag.net> wrote:
>
>> etc) in various languages. Browser engines might be also a good  
>> learning
>> excersise, given lot of formats being just a subset of XHTML in
>> containers nowadays. Especially this applies to .epub, as it is  
>> not only
>> subset of XHTML, but also a subset of CSS.
>
> I think the recommended approach here is to just use a browser engine
> ;-). It should be enough for 95% of the users.
>
> Perhaps even QTextBrowser could be up to the job...
>
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