This and other improvement to Bookshelf have been asked for in the past but it's not happened. Having support for downloading and keeping Raspberry Pi official documentation up to date, supporting access to third-party PDF, having better magazine indexes, better pop-ups on mouse-over, including the first 30 editions of MagPi, have all been suggested.
One problem is that "another tab" seems a simple solution but it's not ideal if you have lots of disparate PDF files. You either want multiple tabs or a hierarchy or you can end up with a forest of PDF where it can sometimes be hard to find the specific tree you want. There's more work involved than it would first seem.
Perhaps Raspberry Pi would be more open to actual Pull Requests to provide features than hoping Raspberry Pi will add desired features. The Bookshelf App was open source (BSD-3) last time I looked so it could be forked, or an alternative could be written from the ground up. The main problem is finding someone willing to do that, having the skills and motivation to do it.
One problem is that "another tab" seems a simple solution but it's not ideal if you have lots of disparate PDF files. You either want multiple tabs or a hierarchy or you can end up with a forest of PDF where it can sometimes be hard to find the specific tree you want. There's more work involved than it would first seem.
Perhaps Raspberry Pi would be more open to actual Pull Requests to provide features than hoping Raspberry Pi will add desired features. The Bookshelf App was open source (BSD-3) last time I looked so it could be forked, or an alternative could be written from the ground up. The main problem is finding someone willing to do that, having the skills and motivation to do it.
Statistics: Posted by hippy — Sat Mar 30, 2024 12:42 pm