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Most of those problems have very simple solutions in software features. > When I was trying to do homework, I wanted - the questions from page 251, the table
by cryptoz 14y ago
Most of those problems have very simple solutions in software features.
> When I was trying to do homework, I wanted - the questions from page 251, the table of equations from 190, and to be able to flip through and find similar examples. Obviously e-books fail miserably if you need quick access to multiple pages.
The solution to this could be implemented in under a week, for sure. Add a little UI for temporary bookmarks. Let the reader save a set of relevant pages (questions, table of equations, examples) and then swipe between them. Simple.
- mirumirai 14y agoThat's exactly what I did studying for the GRE with a pdf ebook. Flipping between bookmarks feels just as fast as flipping physical pages.
- alanctgardner2 14y agoExcept for the loading times. If you've ever used a graphics-heavy textbook, especially on a high-res device like the iPad 3, rendering pages takes forever. It's not just a UI problem, it's an issue of effectively caching the bookmarked pages, and for a large book that might be a big problem.
- mikevm 14y agoI read some scanned PDF files (over 150MB) and they work fine in GoodReader on my iPad 2. I'm sure that graphics heavy vector PDF files would work even faster.
- sopooneo 14y agoI like to have multiple books open at once all in my field of view. I think you could only replicate that with multiple tablets.