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[Announce] Dorian e-book reader
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billybobjones
2011-01-08 , 19:24
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A big thanks Pipacs for all your hard work on Dorian. Since day one on the N900 I've been waiting for a great ebook reader Dorian and Mebook have fulfilled that wish and are amazing. I've been using Dorian for about a month and a half now, though on occasion switching to Mebook depending on the book I'm reading. Both have their pro's and I would love to see some of the features of Mebook added into Dorian. I'm not a programmer, not even close! If I was I'd gladly take the time to submit code for the features I would like to see. Alas,I work as a designer, so please know that I appreciate the time you've put into this program.
One of the Main features I miss when using Dorian is an option to scroll by pages instead of swiping. I know you can click on the arrows on the top right and bottom left, but it seems that having the option to switch pages with a swipe of your finger is a more elegant solution. Same with switching to full-screen mode would a double tap to switch between windowed and full-screen mode be difficult to implement? In doing this you could take away the full-screen icon from the bar on the lower right an place the library button there instead.
Another feature that I would like to see is larger cover art in the library, at the moment the cover art and title/author take up one line I wonder if it would be possible to have it so that it would take up two instead? This way you could have a larger thumbnail for the cover art and the first line for the book title and the second line for the author.
It would also be great to add the option in the library to display a thumbnail view of books on the device, such as the default media player has on the N900. This could be added as an option in settings to set your preferred view
Another thing that I think would be nice to see added in Dorian is accelerometer support for portrait/landscape with an option on the lower icon bar to toggle it on and off.
Finally, and I suppose this is just me being nitpicky but if the icons in the settings menu matched the style of the other used in Dorian it would make for a much more elegant look.
Agian, I know that you do this work in your spare time and that you don't get paid for this. I appreciate any of the work your able to do and as it is Dorian is already amazingly functional. In my opinion these changes would add to that and make it better then the type of ebook apps you see from commercial developers.
I also threw together a mock up of an icon and splash page for Dorian that I'll attach here. If you find them to your liking you're more then welcome to use. just let me know in a post and I'll send you a finalized version. They're designed as vectors so they can be used however you see fit.
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