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Thank you! The lack of a good e-book reader on macOS drives me to distraction. (Every app seems to insist on my using it to curate my books, rather than simpl
by JadeNB 4y ago
Thank you! The lack of a good e-book reader on macOS drives me to distraction. (Every app seems to insist on my using it to curate my books, rather than simply allowing me to look at books that are stored where I want to put them. I recognise that this app is, in a sense, doing the same, but that seems to be an artifact of the design rather than an intentional choice.)
When I go to the landing page and see the paragraph:
> 1paragraph is a browser-based, offline-first epub reader. For every book, it stores the last paragraph you read, shows that paragraph in the library view and scrolls to that paragraph when you open the book.
I think that this paragraph is itself a notional 'e-book', but I found it very confusing to click there (because of my idle clicking habit), and to be taken to a page with the same text but larger, and no indication of what had happened. It may be nice to add some more text. ("Clicking a book in your library, like this one, will open it. You can simply refresh to get back to the main library.")
It might also be nice to have progress bars; for tasks that take a little while, it's hard to tell the difference between an unresponsive interface and an interface that's simply working.
- amadeuspagel 4y ago> I think that this paragraph is itself a notional 'e-book', but I found it very confusing to click there (because of my idle clicking habit), and to be taken to a page with the same text but larger, and no indication of what had happened. It may be nice to add some more text. ("Clicking an e-book will open it. You can simply refresh to get back to the main library.") Thanks. I added the text "Click the back button to go back to the library view." (Right now, this 'e-book' doesn't update if the old version is already stored in your DB. If you want to see the new version you have to use an incognito tab.)