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@Walter,
Thanks for your feedback.
I can not understand your second suggestion.
“the swipe motion seems better suited to a page turn than a chapter change. For the few times a chapter change is required, the index menu is sufficient.”
Could you please be more specific on it?
@jimhim,
Look at this screenshot:
http://playepub.com/files/2011/06/IMG_00000297.jpg
Don’t you see this “del” button?
Have you updated to latest release, 1.6.160?
I see no delete option in my bookmarks list.
Great app! A couple of features could be improved in my personal opinion.
1) the font size and line spacing are difficult to adjust with the slider and could be better served with a dropdown numeric value. The max size also seem unnecessarily large.
2) the swipe motion seems better suited to a page turn than a chapter change. For the few times a chapter change is required, the index menu is sufficient.
@Rolland,
From AppWorld try reinstalling Playepub, should solve the problem.
@Jim,
Open the book and go to bookmarks list. You will see delete option
All my books have disappeared from playepub? They are still there as I can see them in a file folder program that I installed but are not displayed any longer in playepub.
“-Delete bookmarks from window, suggested by jimhim vía web”
Thanks, but I was unable to figure out how to delete a bookmark from the “All your bookmarks” screen. Unless I misunderstood what you have added.
Jim
@Dave,
I’m foucused on itlic problem. Let you know any advance.
@Brenda,
Please, attach that book and let me make some tests.
I love the program, but for some reason when I click on a link it never takes me to the correct one.
I can often find the correct page by turning pages back or forward, but sometimes I can’t find the link at all.
New version looks great, issue #127 is fixed, thanks.
I prefer to read in Generic style (due to issue #124) but in this style italicized text is much too large compared to normal text. I tried changing different font which does not help. See attached book with this problem.
New version released.
v.1.6.160
-New menu option to set clock to 24H/12H format, suggested by Walter M Scott III via email
-New menu option to enable or disable Playbook default standby mode when reading, suggested by Walter M Scott III via email
-Solved some issues when opening books with bad uuid, reported by Scott Gibson by email
-Delete bookmarks from window, suggested by jimhim vía web
-Check font colors to any element on night mode, reported by Dave Croal via web
Dave Croal, Frank Linseisen, jimhim,
During the next days I will release a new update solving your problems and suggestions 🙂
RE: epub opening but blank pages
I really love your reader on the Playbook. Only issue is that it does not seem to be able to read the attached epub. It is a DRM free epub of a German newspaper that I subscribe to. It reads fine with other readers (Book Reader on Playbook or other epub readers on Mac/PC).
Thank you for your help!
Best regards,
Frank
P.S. The “Upload Files” button did never re-appear after I tried to attach the epub-file. Please contact me via e-mail if the attachment process failed and I will e-mail you the epub file in question.
This book was originally in mobi format, perhaps Calibre made a messy epub conversion. Anyway, I look forward to trying the next release, thank you.
@Dave,
Many thanks for your feedback.
I’ve tested your file and I know what is happening. Book styles are messy and declares to always use black fonts.
Next release will force font color to use what your want and not what books does :).
Sorry for the inconvenience.
For now I used Calibre to convert my epub to rtf and then back to epub, now it looks OK in Night mode and Book style.
Thanks,
I just sent by email, thanks.
@Dave Croal,
Sorry, there is no attached file.
Please, send it by email to my App World support account 🙂
Hi, I have a problem with some books that won’t display at all in night mode, unless I switch to “Generic” instead of “Book” style, but in that case even the smallest text size is much too big. See attached epub with this problem.
Thanks
Works great! thanks again. You probably ansewred this question already but I couldn’t find it.
@Rolland,
Try deactivate book styles on swipe down menu. Select “generic” and see what happens. You should be able to see everything right.
Please, let me know.
It would appear that every time a page loads I am losing the bottom few lines. I have shrunk the text down to the minumum and still can’t see the bottom lines on a page. Do you have any idea how to remedy this?
@jimhim,
Happy to hear that man.
I’ll try to reproduce and fix your issue, there might be some more people experiencing it.
Thank you!
Cool. Somewhere along the way my bookmarks must bave gotten corrupted or something. Maybe related to using dev beta 2.0 – I don’t know. I was never able to get rid of those “No text” bookmarks, so I deleted PlayEpub from my Playbook, re-installed it, reimported the books, and started from scratch. So far it is okay.
I wish I had taken a screen shot of those entries to show you first. The were bookmarks with a label of “No text”. They would not delete.
@jimhim,
I guess they are old bookmarks, maybe something is wrong with the last update. I’ll try to solve it. Anyway, I’ll add a del option on bookmarks window. Thanks for your feedback.
I have some bookmarks titled “no text” that wont delete. When I go to them and touch and hold and select Delete, they actually REPLICATE instead of deleting. So now instead of one, I have several bookmarks called “no text” that all go to the same place in the book, and seemingly no way to get rid of them. Other bookmarks seem to delete normally. I wonder if you would consider adding the context menu to the bookmark item itself, instead of the page it links to?
New version released. This is the changelog:
version 1.6.152
-New feature: highlight text on bookmarks and notes. Now, when adding a bookmark or a note, selected text will be highlighted when reading. This feature works only for new bookmarks and notes, old ones will not highlight text.
-Improved bookmarks and notes system. It has more accuracy now going to linked page. This new system works only for new bookmarks and notes, existing ones will work as usual.
-Solved a bug moving selection end to last char of a paragraph, it can be selected now.
-Solved a bug deleting notes
-Solved issue when going to a bookmark or note inside the same chapter you are reading.
-Added welcome and what’s new screens.
@Jan,
Please, attach two of those books to a comment using the form below and let me make some tets.
I have 6 newspapers (see screenshot). I first opened title nummer_46_2011_de_groene_amsterdammer. I can read the newspaper. But when I open the next newspaper eg. nummer_45_2011_de_groene_amsterdammer or the others I see the book and chapters. But when I open a chapter I always get a chapter from the old book (which was nummer_46_2011_de_groene_amsterdammer).
regards,
Jan
I tried uploading the file, but I think they are too big (over 4 MB), so I can’t put them up here, sorry
Thanks to you Jo 🙂
Anyway, please, attach me one of those books to try to solve the issue with book styles.
Hey I did change the Style from Book to Generic and it worked fine. This is actually going to cause me to keep my playbook instead of returning it.
You should get paid by RIM 🙂
Thanks a lot.
@Jo,
You can also try deactivating book styles. When reading, swipe down to show main menu and and switch off “Book styles”, to “default” instead of “book”.
Can you see the text?
@Jo,
Please, attach here one of those files and let me make some tests.
Hey,
So far i tried 5 epub books and 1 worked fine, other 4 did not. After seeing how the reader is supposed to work based on the 1 book that worked, i can see that the other 4 books aren’t properly split. for example the sentence goes something like “and then, our hero Mike attacked the…” and on the next column i will see heading “Chapter 2”
I think there is an issue with the reader not recognizing all of the text?I know books are not missing any text as I can read them on epubreader on my computer just fine.
Any suggestions?
@Jo,
Sorry, I can’t really understand your problem.
Pages are splited so when you tap, next page is shown. There is no need to scroll down, what you need is next page.
Could you be more specific on what you mean when you want to scroll down?
To qualify my question a bit more, i can see that there is more text on the bottom left and right side in the reader, but i can’t read any of the text below. (i can see top half of the sentence, but can’t read anything below it). I can basically only read half of each page
Hi,
When I open a non DRM protected epub book the reader only displays have the page in two columns. I can’t scroll down to read bottom half of the page, as every time i try to move down it flips the page…I tried this with 4 epub books and have the same issue with all of them.
@Hua,
I’m not sure, it depends on Playbook web browser so it should work.
Please, attatch one chinese book and I’ll test it.
Regards!
Hi, does it support Simplified Chinese fonts?
Thanks,
Hua
I’ve released a new update today.
-Improved reading options, book own styles are shown by default increasing appearance.
-New menu option to deactivate book styles and use generic ones.
-Improved file browser with copy/paste/del/rename/unzip options
-Improved UI on main screen, colors, spaces…
-Solved issue with page chapter hidden on night mode, reported by Gossieur on Twitter
-Font family is now defined per book.
-Minor bugs solved
Please, let me know if you have any issue.
@Josh,
In the “Notes list” window, select the one you want to delete and tap on “delete”.
I can’t figure out how to delete notes that I have created.
It would also be handy if the text in the publication could be highlighted when I have a note attached. Great for study purposes.
New reelase available :
-Backlight remains on while reading, suggested by Daniel Perez
-Voice notes, suggested by Daniel Perez
-Copy all notes to clipboard, suggested by Martina Boone
-Minor issues solved
@denny,
I tried last night, and evetything went right this morning :(. I still don’t know how to reproduce.
I’ll make more tests.
this happened to me when i switched back from another app to the reader.
@denny,
I haven’t thought about it, but I’ll study it
@Frank,
I understand now. I’ll try to make something like you suggest.
are you going to include pdf support? i cant stand pdf reader by adobe.