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Folks, I just got a tablet. The main reason I got it is that there are a huge number of public domain books that have been scanned and are available for *free*. (This includes many books that have been reprinted, often with a new forward so the reprint can be copyrighted making it seem that the whole work is copyrighted. This includes numerous that can be purchased from Amazon in both print and eBook formats.) Not to mention that a number of these public domain books are no not available, even in second hand book stores, or carry 3, 4 or more digit price tags (if you can find them) because their copyrights have lapsed. Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page) was one of the first to create a collection of eBooks of publications that are in the public domain, all available for *free*. At first they were all in plain text (ASCII) format. Before eBook readers became a phenomena Project Gutenberg started adding HTML and PDF formatted books. (Now they seem to be shifting to EPUB.) My point is that: 1. A version of Evince for Android doesn't exist, so I'm forced to use Acrobat Reader. Yeech! 2. Though Acrobat Reader does allow me to highlight text, add notes, etc. it does not allow me to bookmark a page. (Google's 'Play Books' does all this. However, I have to subscribe to a service with a monthly fee to save all my notes etc.) The suggestions then are: 1. At least an Evince should be ported to Android. (Android is based on Linux after all.); 2, Add book reading features to all versions. When PDF was first created, based on the way it worked and how it has evolved, it seems to have intended for short documents (a few pages long). i.e. pamphlets, hang tags, letters, forms, etc. PDF is now being used for long documents. i.e. manuals, books, etc. Acrobat seems to be attempting to keep up, I feel that Evince could do even better than Acrobat. -- Udvarias Ur This letter was generated and sent from Thunderbird 24.2.0 on Ubuntu Linux 12.04.2 LTS. Cette lettre a été générée et envoyée à partir de Thunderbird 24.2.0 sur Ubuntu Linux 12.04.2 LTS. |