<div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 7:45 PM, Marco Ballesio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gibrovacco@gmail.com">gibrovacco@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
<br>- Adjustable font size.<br>- Automatic scrolling (maybe using QKineticScroller, it's hw accelerated in embedded devices so power consumption is really limited).<br>- Text-to-speech (espeak is good, Festival is better).<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div> 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?</div>
<div><br></div><div>As for text-to-speech, another GSoC student David Jordan is making an application for blind and visually impaired people. We talked a little about this in IRC and sure it would be a nice feature but it might go a bit outside the scope of this project. I'll have a chat with him to find out how hard it would be to implement it.</div>
<div> </div></div><div> On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Aniello Del Sorbo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anidel@gmail.com">anidel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div class="h5">Anyway... I am about to get an eBook reader next week and I've been</div></div>
reading about Ebook readers quite a lot lately.<br>
What seems to be important is the font.<br>
The default font has to be really nice on the N900 screen and look<br>
gorgeous and easy to read on the chosen background.<br>
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Of course, one has to be able to choose, but the default one has to be<br>
the one most people will use.<br>
So please, take particular care on choosing it.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fonts are of course very important for readability. I haven't made any decisions yet on default or other fonts, maybe the community could be of help in finding a good set of fonts. </div>
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Last, how do you plan to swipe through pages?<br>
Gestures, overlay buttons (a la PDF reader) or continuous read?<br><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I plan to use gestures here. Swipe left or right on the textview to change the page, in landscape perhaps up or down.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Ryan Abel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rabelg5@gmail.com">rabelg5@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
Implementing format handling from-scratch is going to be a herculean undertaking, so I wonder if you could've borrow FBReader's handling (as their format support is strong and fairly extensive). As that not only gives you a lot of quality format support, but also a long-term solution to format handling (assuming you don't have to deviate overly far from their code to implement it).<br>
<br>As for formatting, having easily configurable formatting options is important to ensuring that all of your users can get their optimal experience. This is one area where devices like Kindle and iPad fall flat on their faces (setting the default margin to 1" always seemed rather insane to me). Again, this is another area where I would mostly just borrow from FBReader (options, not code ;)), but see if it can't be implemented in a more mobile-friendly manner. Having a number of useful default profiles will help here.<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote></div></div><div> </div></div>As Ville mentioned Okular has good format support including epub and djvu. Okular will probably be used as starting point or reference for this project. As for formatting, I'll take look at what options FBReader has and see what I can do.<div>
<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:15 AM, Aniello Del Sorbo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anidel@gmail.com">anidel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; ">
Holding the device in portrait mode feels more natural and solid, but<br>I was never been able to read in portrait<br>(and, indeed, i never even use the browser in portrait mode).<br><br>Anyway... full support for both modes then :)<br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#888888"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">I don't think supporting both portrait and landscape should be a problem. I use portrait mode more when reading (though hardly ever in the browser) but landscape </span></font>would be useful also.</div>
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