I have promoted FBReader 0.10.7-10 build to Extras-Testing. Changes:
* Package optified
* Made background color a bit lighter, font a big bigger.
* Reenabled Net Library and Net Search features. They are now available from the Library View (click on the little folder icon to switch to the Library View).
I hope that everyone present have got their wishes satisfied in this version. Please, give it a try and vote here:
Main wish (and please let me know if I'm just not using something that's already there):
I can't find a decent way to scroll through a book, or jump to a place in a book, and see where I am. It seems that I have a choice in Preferences either to see page numbers (with no scrollable scroll bar) or to have a usable scrollbar along the side but no page numbers. It makes moving around within a book, as opposed to just going from one page to the next, very difficult.
Searching the net I only found some Russian authors and no Jane Austen, for example. Must be pointing to a Russian book site? So feedbooks.com is checked in preferences, but only litres.ru works for me.
No idea: I have never used this feature or changed it in any way. In other words, it is supposed to work exactly the same way as before.
You are right! The same thing happens on my N800, which of course doesn't have the latest version of FBreader installed. So there must be something wrong with Feedbooks.com, though I was able to access it just now from my browser.
Edit: well, something changed about feedbooks.com, not necessarily 'wrong'.
I guess it's possible that feedbooks.com is being blocked for me for some reason -- does this feature work for anyone else?
I posted an inquiry about this in the googlegroups fbreader group.
Sorry, only working on the Fremantle version. The Diablo one is good enough, as far as I am concerned.
Bummer, since it's great, but for being able to move around in it. Obviously it's your call though. Thanks for taking it where you have.
So, is this feature "fixed" in Fremantle?
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I can't find a decent way to scroll through a book, or jump to a place in a book, and see where I am. It seems that I have a choice in Preferences either to see page numbers (with no scrollable scroll bar) or to have a usable scrollbar along the side but no page numbers. It makes moving around within a book, as opposed to just going from one page to the next, very difficult.
Well, the way you are explaining it, it sounds like you are simply using it wrong. FBReader provides several ways of navigation, see if any of these work for you:
1. Table of contents, if the book has one.
2. Scrollbar, which is ugly so I have it disabled.
3. "Old style" status bar that shows page number and a book progress bar which you touch to jump through the book.
4. Page number entry field which I had to disable in Maemo5 due to lack of toolbar space.
5. Undo/redo buttons that let you quickly switch to positions you previously navigated to. Think of them as autobookmarks.
So, one of these should work for you. Personally, I use #1 and #3.
I don't need to be told that Project Gutenberg has Jane Austen, thanks; I have probably known that for 15 years.
You might want to check out the Republic of Pembroke web site if you are an Austen fan.
The point is that FBreader makes it easy to download books from certain sites listed in the preferences. Did you even know that? Project Gutenberg isn't a choice. There are only two choices, a Russian site and Feedbooks.com. Feedbooks.com appears to get some books from Project Gutenberg.
However, Feedbooks.com does not work in several versions of FBreader on my tablets, meaning that zero English-language books can be dowmloaded using FBreader at my house.
No one has confirmed this problem; but I suspect it is general.
Edit: By the way, Kathy, you might check out the last post in the thread you thought I might like. It is from me.
