Task Proposal: eBook Reader

[todd rme]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
>> > I'd also suggest either always displaying it in portrait mode or at
> least
>> > allowing to switch orientation. Reading in landscape mode totally
> breaks
>> > the "book" feeling as you need to scroll within pages.
>>
>> having used Okular on the tablet for reading, i'd suggest defaulting to
>> portrait mode and offering a way to manually rotate (for all the reasons
>> already supplied by you and todd)
>
> +1, absolutely makes sense to me.
> I actually rotated the view in Okular sometimes, but since Okular has too
> much
> "chrome", I found the pages mostly too narrow to read.
> So we'll need to give the actual document as much horizontal space as
> possible.

The workspace has those little drag handles to pull out panels.  Maybe
there could be one of those on one side to pull out a panel with a
list of pages, and another on the other side to pull out a panel with
a table of contents (if there is one).

-Todd