Thread: Frustrating PDF, ebook, websurfing thoughts with N810
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2008-02-01 , 08:51
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Originally Posted by setasai View Post
PDF's are a hit and miss to me because the built in viewer is fast and snappy but does not have thumbnails or bookmark support while evince does have thumbnails and bookmarks, it takes evince like 5-10 seconds to load each thumbnail and my PDF's are sometimes over 1000 pages.
Yeah, PDFs are a pain on any platform. Have you maybe tried converting them? Converting will probably be hit and miss, but it may be a usable option for some of them.

Originally Posted by setasai View Post
It is however sometimes annoying when the site for some reason does not allow for finger scrolling. For example, amazon.com switches to "text select" mode instead of allowing for finger scrolling.
My guess is that this has something to do with the invisible part of page elements being factored into the selection logic. A pain, yes, but there are ways around it.
  1. Try going either above or below, or to the left or right the element that's giving you trouble.
  2. Use the scrollbar.
  3. Change the d-pad to page or line-scrolling. See the steps in the comment section of bug #2423

I'd be nice if MicroB would just be consistent about the double-tap-to-select.

Originally Posted by setasai View Post
Now Ebooks is by far the most frustrating thing and if anybody has ANYTHING to say or suggest I'll be MOST grateful.
Yeah, multi-file HTML books are an admitted stumbling block of FBReader. Have you maybe tried putting together a script of some kind to merge the individual chapters into a single file? Maybe there's a converter about that's convert to some other format (Plucker?).

Perhaps putting them into a folder and setting up an index page to use it from within the web browser locally?

Thankfully, all of my ebooks are in nice single-file formats.
 

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