The TOC and especially the Library are clutter while reading.

Unlike iTunes, where choosing a new file every few minutes is the norm, a user will typically spend several hours on one file when reading. And jumping between chapters randomly is also not typical usage. (I believe users who do that are using reference books, and they wouldn't be doing that with Bookle because its lack of search makes it entirely unsuited to that purpose.)

It should be possible to hide the Library and TOC. There's as good as zero benefit to having them constantly visible, and they are distractions.

I would like to be able to search for text with the book as a minimum. A global search across the whole library would also be useful as an option when trying to find all books that contain the search word or phrase.

I just had to do some cleanup of my Bookle library and only then did I realize how difficult it is to remove multiple items from the library. Please (1) add a way to do it with the keyboard, (2) a way to select and remove multiple items and possibly (3) a way to right-click with the mouse to remove one or more items.

It would be nice to be able to sync Bookle's library between multiple Macs, so the user doesn't have to add books to multiple copies of Bookle manually.

Safari's distraction free "Reader" mode graying out the background and just providing a view of the content is very nice. Bookle could potentially do something similar (without switching to full screen mode, and preferably via a keyboard shortcut) where the right side display of the book content was focused for reading with everything else on the monitor grayed out in the background. Ideally that would work one monitor in a dual monitor configuration leaving the other monitor operating normally, or even optionally having the 2nd monitor grayed out for "fully" focused reading.

Similar to my Kindle. Actually on the Kindle, when I close a book, it re-opens to where I was when I left.

The list of titles in Bookle is currently static; all you can do is add and delete them. In a future version, we're envisioning an interface more like iTunes, where there are multiple columns displaying the various metadata for each book: title, author, date added, size, and so on. You'd be able to sort the list by any of the columns, which would help with much larger libraries.

Hi,

I would like to store my books in the cloud Dropbox, Box.net etc..., view them in searchable Bookshelf and list modes ala Delicious Library and iBooks and be able to download them one at a time.

So that "A Painted House" is sorted as "Painted House". You get the idea...

Rather than putting an entire chapter into the text object, display only one page of text, so that there is no scroll bar. Spacebar or Page Down will display the next page, Shift-Spacebar or Page Up will display the previous page. Allow swiping to change the page rather than change the chapter. Perhaps swipe up or swipe down can change the chapter.

Currently the way things are, the last line of visible text might be only partially shown. When you display an entire page, don't allow for partially displayed lines in the last line of visible text.

The first thing I tried to do with Bookle was to drag 28 ePubs to the Library list in the Bookle window. This fails on 2 counts:
- dragging to the library, expected functionality, does not work, instead you have to find a Bookle icon and drag to that; and dragging to the coverflow version of the icon doesn't work either.
- Dragging multiple ePubs results in only one being imported.

enable pagination as a reading option as well as scrolling

Usually, these readers allow for a choice of left or right aligned, or centered, instead of only justified to both sides. At the very least, add left alignment. Having an uneven right margin may not look as good, but it helps a reader keep track of which line they're on.

that would flow text from one pane to the next on its right instead of making each chapter one scrollable pane. This is particularly useful for reference works (such as Take Control and O'Reilly pubs) when there are operations and/or code that you would like to keep on screen with their descriptions. It would also help maintain shorter lines for readability in full screen mode.

I'd like to see how much of a book I have read. Example implementation - a check box for each line item in the TOC, which the user checks after reading, and then a linear display representing what has been read / not read in the book. This would be useful when studying a subject. For books which have exercises or tutorials, it would also be useful to have a second set of markings to record whether you have "actioned" the section as well as reading it.

I use calibre to integrate my ebooks, all formats (I don't always remember if it is a NookBook, a Kindle, or an epub from Baen or O'Reilly). I COULD do it now, but it appears to make YET ANOTHER COPY of the book. I already have one copy of iTunes and another in calibre

I am used to right-clicking or CMD-clicking the title bar to jump out to the folder that contains the ebook. It is a standard interface item but is missing in Bookle.

Being able to set the line height and the spacing between paragraphs would improve legibility considerably.