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I wonder if this is a difference in perspective between people who use it as an ebook library manager and as an ebook reader. The ebook reader UI is terrible. L
by Macha 2y ago
I wonder if this is a difference in perspective between people who use it as an ebook library manager and as an ebook reader. The ebook reader UI is terrible. Like how do you jump to a page:
1. Right click on the book to get menu at the top of the window.
2. Click go to
3. Pick which type of "go to" you want ("location")
4. You now get a full screen UI with a single input box
5. Now you get to enter a page number.
Other ebook readers, even the crappy DRM-encumbered web apps, give you a slider.
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Also rendering a page is very slow, so you scroll to go to the next page, and apparently nothing happens for quite some time. Also it takes two ticks of the scroll wheel to paginate, even in the absence of any internal scrolling. So you're wondering if the page is rendering or if you need to scroll more and potentially overshoot.
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Opening the bookmarks UI reflows the page, potentially pushing what you wanted to bookmark out of sight onto the next page.
- nottorp 2y ago> The ebook reader UI is terrible. I don't think the reader UI is there for ... reading books. At best for checking out what the conversion steps did. I just drag books to it, sometimes edit the titles and then export them to a Kindle. When the Kindle gets fully locked down I'll get a Kobo or whatever is in fashion and works well with Calibre at that time.
- sceptic123 2y agoNo, it's just not great UI. It is functional, but that is not the same as good.
- sgarland 2y agoOh, that may be entirely possible. Yeah, I don't use the reader at all. For one, I hate reading books on a computer. For two, agreed, its UI isn't great. I'm entirely referring to its use as a library manager / ebook converter.