Reader Bookshelf 3.99.1.8 Feedback

Glad to see the icon display issue fixed. As I use the beta more I had some feedback about the reader bookshelf:

1. On v3 if I select "open reader file" it shows me (I think) a view of the file manager excluding documents that the reader can't open, including folders within the file manager. Those folders don't appear in the v4 bookshelf, but I can make new folders. Assuming you want to keep folders in the file manager separate from folders in the bookshelf, would it be possible to duplicate file manager folders to the bookshelf when importing v3 data to v4? This is a minor issue because for me at least it won't take very long to re-sort my documents into new folders in the v4 bookshelf.

2. The pin/unpin setting currently isn't very discoverable. Maybe it could also be enabled with a right swipe (like delete is a left swipe).

3. You're probably aware of this, but selecting functions like live OCR or clipboard reader enables operations that don't make sense, like share. Similarly, deleting those functions gives the generic delete document screen that doesn’t apply.

4. On that delete document screen, it would probably make sense to change the text to "are you sure you want to remove this document" because as the dialogue box goes on to say, you aren't actually deleting it.

5. I would have assumed that the still OCR tools would be in the bookshelf next to live OCR, clipboard, etc. from the start and reappear if deleted once you use them like the others do.

6. I assume the move to "root" option will be renamed (or move simply won't be an option if the only place to move something is to "root")

7. The reader is unable to load photos or files (presumably its supposed to ask for permission and doesn't).
 

mikelove

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Thanks. With #7, 'photos or files' - do you mean image files? Or is it just photo library access that's the problem? And is this only for photos migrated over from 3.0 or for newly opened ones too?
 
Now it works fine so not sure what happened. Although it can't display Word docs (just shows white) but that issue might have been mentioned already. PDFs display fine but lack lookup handles.
 
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mikelove

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Yeah, adding lookup handles to PDFs within the limits of Apple's slightly buggy PDF viewer system would be painful so we'd probably only consider that if we had a lot of requests for it. Wasn't aware of the Word issue, is this true even when the app isn't in night mode?
 
Okay—no need to count me as a request because I rarely look at PDFs in Pleco, just wanted to make you aware. Word issue is not just a night mode issue, and not tied to any specific Word doc. After the doc loads, it says page 1 of 0 at the bottom and the screen is white unless I change the background color, and then still no text appears. Playing around with the formatting (text color, etc.) doesn't help at all. TXT files work fine.
 
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