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I would need a couple of things to make this workable for me: - an e-reader implementation/support on an e-ink device --- looks like the Android app on a Boox
by WillAdams 2y ago
I would need a couple of things to make this workable for me:
- an e-reader implementation/support on an e-ink device --- looks like the Android app on a Boox or something similar would cover that
- regular sales --- the $1.99 offerings which Amazon and most other e-book vendors offer have thus far pretty much kept abreast or ahead of my reading inclinations (even filtering for where they intersect with my interests)
- a robust organization/filtering where _all_ versions of a given text show up under a single listing/page (there are a couple of books where I have multiple copies because it was re-published with a new foreword and the old listing vanished and there was _no_ indication that I already owned it --- similarly, this should include _all_ public domain work, and including the entirety of Project Gutenberg (preferably not for free, but for some nominal amount which is then donated to that project) would make usage a _lot_ easier
- a way to buy gift cards using Microsoft Rewards points (or cash) --- remember the sales I mentioned, I never spend more than discretionary money on e-books
- a mechanism for reporting typos/conversion errors which actually works --- the first e-book I "bought", Robert Heinlein's _Space Cadet_ was so rife with errors that it was unreadable --- I actually had to check a copy out from a local library so as to be able to write up a list of all the typos --- even now, I still find typos in books (_Dune_, which I didn't buy/re-read on my Kindle still had typos in it ("pogrom" rendered as "program", a formatting error for one of the _s_ glossary entries, a couple of others) despite having had millions of downloads before I got around to reading it.
I would also like to have an ebook format where more effort is given to annotation/decoration, and where that would re-flow based on screen size (cue the discussion I tried to have with my boss where I wanted to make an e-book app and matching format back when the iPhone first launched...)