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Rob1n	2010-11-03 , 15:57
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Originally Posted by TinaHolmboe

But ... I am at a loss to find any way to add a book to the library from inside the application itself. It doesn't search sub-folders, despite the appropriate box being ticked.

That's odd - mine searches within subdirectories with no problems (my epub books are all in subdirectories by author). I'll look at re-adding the "Add book" option to the library menu though.

Originally Posted by TinaHolmboe

There's also the problem with the preference editor not migrated to Maemo UI, which makes changing options very, very hard indeed.

Yeah. There is a partly migrated version, but I need to look into how to get it enabled (and make sure it still offers all the options).

Originally Posted by irene

Need help pls
I have updated my fbreader to 0.12.10
and now it won't recognize fb2's or any formats but txt's

I'll try to grab some alternate formats and try them. That's all upstream functionality though, and certainly shouldn't be affected by any of the patches I've added.

EDIT2: I've just tried an fb2 (from fictionbook-lib.org) and that showed up (and opened) fine.

Originally Posted by extendedping

1) fs button does not exist in library mode, this means if you decide to exit the app in library mode you must either a) select a book first or b) use keyboard ctrl backspace to minimize app then hope your touch closes it (I usually miss and it just reexpand it).

You can also press "F" on the keyboard to exit full-screen mode. I'll look at forcing the fullscreen overlay back on for library view though (there's no way to add the FS button).

Originally Posted by extendedping

2) option to open app in full screen, since the ability to go to fs already exists, why not have this option?

Good question - should be straightforward enough to add.

Originally Posted by extendedping

3) library view that just shows book covers. for whatever reason my oreilly.com books work not so well with the library function in fbreader (but work better in say dorian). In fbreader. for instance I have 17 books but since it by default sorts by author, many of the books repeat in the library (I have 32 choices to be exact because if a book has multiple authors I get multiple entries for the same book). and I have to drill down through authors to get to the books. dorian and meebook on the other hand just show the book covers and titles, which is much easier. to have this functionality and to be able to set default library view would be great.

You could do this via the tag view (and deleting all tags from the books) but that's a bit messy. I'll have a look at how easy it'll be to do a non-clustered view. This'll get very messy if you have hundreds of books though (and how should it be sorted - by title I guess?).

Also, version 0.12.10-9 has now been uploaded, adding a basic library view option (in the preferences dialog). This shows only the author/series/title/tag label (with a +/- to indicate where they'll expand/collapse). The spacing looks reasonable enough to me, but let me know if you feel it's too spread out or too tight to easily select.

EDIT: Oh, the tap scrolling in the library view will have to wait - it's going to be a lot of work to add that in, so I'll look into some of these other issues/requests first.

Last edited by Rob1n; 2010-11-03 at 16:15.

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