{"id":1004316,"date":"2012-07-23T06:39:43","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1004316"},"modified":"2012-07-23T06:39:43","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T11:39:43","slug":"i-want-an-ereader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/tech\/2012\/07\/23\/i-want-an-ereader\/","title":{"rendered":"I Want an eReader"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve gotten completely addicted to eBooks this year. I now have a library of hundreds of ePubs and PDFs covering almost every category in the Dewey Decimal System. However I’m finding the available eReading software weak and inadequate for a lot of uses. The best I’ve found so far is Aldiko Premium<\/a> ($4.99 at the Android App Store) combined with the open source Calibre on my desktop and laptop; but I want better. In particular here’s what I find missing in current options:
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  1. Easy bulk loading of hundreds of books from my desktop when I switch to a new phone, tablet, or other device<\/li>\n
  2. Persistent metadata management. E.g. if I change the author of a book on my desktop (because the embedded metadata is often wrong) the new author should be written into the file itself; and that value should be maintained as the file is copied from system to system. It’s easier to edit this on my desktop. I don’t want to have to correct bad data on each new phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop.<\/li>\n
  3. Reflowable PDFs. This is especially important for math, physics, and other technical books. There are many books I just can’t read on my Galaxy Nexus because they’re PDFs and the pages shrink to illegibility. <\/li>\n
  4. Better file management. E.g. I want to be able to categorize all my math books, my physics books, my science fiction, and so forth into separate but potentially intersecting collections. Furthermore I want to persist these collections (labels?) across devices. <\/li>\n
  5. Search inside the book<\/li>\n
  6. No locking of the books to the device, software, or bookstore. E.g. not a Kindle and not a Nook.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Nice to haves, but not absolutely required, include:<\/p>\n