Notebooks for iPhone Answers

Support for ePub ebooks

notebooks, July 30, 2011 09:47

It would be very useful if Notebooks could:

* import ePub
* full-text search ePub
* generate iOS link/URL for a specific page number in an ePub
* recall last open position in a PDF or ePub, when re-opening doc

Are there plans to implement

Alfons Schmid, August 01, 2011 19:25

Hi,

first the good news: Notebooks already reopens the last position of PDF documents, just as it does for all other document types, too.

Regarding ePub, we are not quite convinced if we should go that route and try to rebuild functionality that is already very well implemented in other apps (iBooks especially), but I agree that managing and viewing ALL your documents in Notebooks would be very nice...

Cheers,
Alfons

notebooks, August 01, 2011 19:52

Advantages of ePub in Notebooks would be:

- full text search in context of notes
- iOS hyperlink to open specific book sections (not available in iBooks, Stanza, Kindle)
- book/page annotations as first-class objects in Notebooks
- not just for ebooks, but Instapaper / Read-It-Later exports in epub format

Alfons Schmid, August 20, 2011 16:27

Ok, we have put this idea into our "incubator" ;-)