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Originally Posted by JanKrejcarek View Post
Hello, I also think that the previous Library view was better. Now in landscape mode, only five books fit on a page, thus You have to scroll a lot more then in previous versions.
To read a book, you can't tap on the book's icon or title which are quite big, but You have to hit the really small 'Read book' link instead. If You have multiple categories and open one of them than the only way to get to another category is to either scroll through all the books (remember - only five fit on a page, so scrolling is annoying) or scroll back to the category and hide the list there. And there is no search field to filter the list (to achieve less scrolling), so the Library really is merely unusable...
I must say that I prefer the new layout. Yes, there's fewer books shown on a page, but they're clustered nicely by author & series. Yes, opening a book can be quite tricky, but I found it just as difficult with the previous version. And you get 14 books on a page in portrait mode

I'll see how easy it is to offer the old layout as an option though.

Originally Posted by JanKrejcarek View Post
So, if You would:
- allow to close a category using a button (there is plenty of space at the bottom)
- make the list of books more condensed to fit more books on a page (I suggest getting rid of the links below title, ie. read, edit and remove book - the screen space is too precious to have them where they are)
- allow to open a book by tapping the book's icon and title
- allow to filter the list of books
Sorry, those are all upstream features (I think - closing a category may be feasible to add, but I'll have to look into that) - log bugs/feature requests via fbreader.org for these. I'm quite happy to enable/disable existing functionality, or add in Maemo-specific features (if they're simple enough and fit into the existing framework) but I'm not interested in forking the project.