Talk:Read
The screenshot (the sharks page) has a typo in it -- "it's" should be "its".
- It looks like the content was originally taken from this page about sharks, although I can't find information there for the other animals mentioned in the screenshots, so I assume that it's just a mock-up and isn't something that ships with the laptops. —Joe 12:28, 21 October 2007 (EDT)
Feature Requests
please make it read other formats as well...I don't think it's very useful to read plain text and html books in the web browser and pdf in the Read activity...and also, it really needs a page up/page down setting on one of the game buttons...scrolling line by line isn't really comfortable in ebook mode... 62.47.162.246
- More formats are on the drawing board, and you can press the 'x' game key to skip to the next 'page' of text.
I hate to mention this format, because I find it gross, but: multi-page TIFF. This is commonly used for scanned books. TIFF is crummy for most things, but actually does a damn fine job for high-resolution black-and-white text when using the Group 4 (T.6) two-dimensional fax encoding. AlbertCahalan 00:59, 29 August 2007 (EDT)
ability to write on a pdf or type comments and save it
Hello. I would like to suggest a feature that "remembers" the user's last-read document page number. The next time the user opens the document, the page view will "jump" to the last viewed page. This feature exists on the Apple Newton, and it is quite handy.
- Read already does this in the joyride build, and will be part of Update.1
Hi, There is a message on the article saying that read can ONLY read PDFs and not rtf/txt/html. Is this still the case? I think the #1 feature would be the ability to open txt (at the very least) so that public e-texts (from Gutenberg and others) will be available.
Other feature requests:
- A way to select and save portions of text to a clippings file for later review,
- A way to annotate or create a margin note
- A quick and easy way to increase the font size while reading
- It is unclear to me how I would access files stored on an SD card in Read. Does Read have an "open" function?
--Beagley 12:01, 13 December 2007 (EST)
Implementation Discussion
Uses the Evince document viewer to render ebooks.