: Re: What book collection related features can be useful in an eBook reader app When choosing an eBook reader application, what are the features that a user should seek for managing a set of book

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Collection download and transfer

Ability to synchronize your collection between multiple devices
Ability to synchronize your collection with the cloud

As a subset of this, backing up and restoring your collection in the cloud

Ability to manually download books from your PC collection to mobile device without automated syncing
Ability to connect to eBook vendors of your choice, purchase ebooks from them and download (Amazon, Samsung, Apple, other web books stores...)
Ability to recognize the book (author/title) by reading the unknown book's content and matching it to special content database, the way music players can identify an MP3 file by the audio fingerprint. Not sure if any software today supports this.

Picking a specific book from a collection

Finding a book by file name substring
Finding a book by browsing the directory

Ideally, should let you sort within subdirectories by your choice (by date, by name, by size)

Tagging and searching by tag
Ability to read book metadata, including EPUB; and finding books by metadata
Finding a book by searching for a string in actual book text
If books support summary blurbs, ability to view a blurb before opening the book

For mobile devices, persistence of experience

Remember the last book you were reading, and open it immediately
Remember several of the last books you were reading for quick pick
Remember the last directory you opened the book from, and start browsing there
Remember a list of your past searches and let you re-do them

Social features

Rate books
Recommend books
Share books
For DRM books that support it, lend books

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