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03-12-2008, 07:52 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
It has been updated with customisations that allow it to 'always be on top' so may indeed work. Give it a whirl Daron. 
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03-12-2008, 07:54 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
Okay I'll get it thrown on there ASAP
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05-12-2008, 12:49 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
Batty works great. 
It,s on to top like i want it.
Thanks a lot
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05-12-2008, 01:31 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
I am only too pleased to help, now you can enjoy reading without the worry of the battery going flat on you!
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05-12-2008, 05:04 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
Yep I loaded it last night and I can confirm it does indeed stasy on top but then again everyone knows that mnow anway
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05-12-2008, 05:41 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
They do indeed, still handy though!
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14-12-2008, 05:26 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
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Originally Posted by FekketCantenel
Windows, the versions up to 2008d allowed you to use the up-down buttons to control it. In fact, I downgraded last night because I needed that and couldn't find it in the new version
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Hi, new member here - I second this; I have an HTC Tytn II and was previously able to use the scrolly wheel on the side to change pages - it seems I now have to use the left/right buttons which is a lot less comfortable. I don't have the old files so I can't even downgrade.. *sulk*
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17-12-2008, 04:16 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
I really like uBook, I'm only hoping for two things:
1. Configurable 'next page' button.
I just retired my old SimPad and bought a netbook. uBook works very well with it, except that the 'cursor up' button is quite inconvenient when you hold the thing in book (portrait) position.
2. Read PDF files, easily
This has always been a pain for me; PDF itself is awful (fixed layout and blurry fonts), the built-in renderer doesn't work well for many books (it skips and repeats many sections), and the converters I've tried are so-so.
I really appreciate DoctorWkt's efforts, but... any tool whose user guide starts with "Step 1: install Linux, Step 2: compile stuff" can hardly be called user friendly...
I would greatly appreciate a 'pre-configured PDF to html.zip' conversion tool that runs on the same platform as uBook (Windows). Given that, I wouldn't mind if the built-in support was dropped.
(edit: figured out how to get UTF-8 chars. Via DoctorWkt's tool, I found Poppler -> Xpdf -> pdftotext which runs on Windows and can handle accented chars)
(edit2: UTF-8 looks good now, except that uBook cannot display non-ASCII chars like in Shōgun - that would be my third wish...)
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24-12-2008, 01:04 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
First: uBook is a great program, and one of the main reasons I stayed with WM, but...
I miss some options, mainly syncing the desktop and PDA versions (I've got some ideas for that  )
Some extra options for TOC parsing i.e. only underlined and bold paragraphs are included (I remember something like this was available before, but I can't seem to find it again)
And I think that's about it I'm missing, I've read the whole thread, but didn't find anything to second/third but the snyc...
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24-12-2008, 03:18 PM
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Re: uBook - what do you want?
The desktop sync is something I've been asking David to add for years, had a few ideas myself too on how it could be achieved but alas........
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