I’d also add customization of colors of text and background to your list! Along with paragraph indent!

Tap to turn page (easier than swipe, less tiring)

Full-screen mode (no title bar)

Bookmarks

Ability to zoom images using iPhone stretch mechanism

Justification/Ragged Right options

A couple more steps in the font size choices

But what I would most welcome, and would perhaps have to wait for an additional releaase would be improved library management. At the simplest level this would be improved sort/search options. But enhancing it along the lines of iTunes by adding metadata (Author, Title, Series, Volume, Date Acquired, Date Read etc) that could then be manipulated with “playlists” and browse by Author/Series/Date would be really useful. Perhaps even Coverflow for books so that you can leaf through your bookshelf…

As for logging into a Fictionwise account, it’s the same as logging into an eReader account, just enter your Fictionwise account username and password and your bookself should be listed for you. I’ve done this several times now.

Oh, and by the way, most likely that version of Vest Pocket Dictionary is bad. If it is the one I have it was a demo book. It didn’t work where ever I tried to download it–iPod, WM device or off of ereader.com. There was a second release I picked up after I discovered this but I can’t find it on the site now.

Hope this helps.

Three questions about ereader or the iPhone.

1) Can you make the status bar across the top disappear?

(either from ereader or from the iPhone settings)

2) Does the first incarnation of ereader on the iPhone keep track of where you left off in EACH book that you’re reading?

3) Can one change the color scheme–e.g., to display blue text on a black background?

(again either from ereader setting or iPhone)

Thanks! I’ll take the answers off the air…

Cheers,
David

Would love to see the accelerometer used so that I could just flick through pages.

Thanks

Or is that something that the iPhone itself handles? Or is not possible at all?

At night, I really prefer a black background and blue, yellow, or green text. Makes it easier to read and doesn’t disturb my spouse!

Of course, this is yet another argument against DRM; books should not be linked to any programs or mix of programs.

To FW’s considerable credit, it promotes DRMless formats—let’s hope that the big publishers can eventually come to their senses, so FW and other software folks can truly compete on usability and feature sets, the very stuff about which you and I care so much.

Meanwhile why don’t you share with us what you like so much about Bookshelf, especially compared to eReader? Ideally we can spur some healthy competition. Thanks again for writing in! I’m especially looking forward to your further thoughts on Bookshelf once you’ve tried it.

David

P.S. Bookshelf can handle formats which a certain conversion program can produce from DRMed files. But thanks to our bought Congress, this fair use is illegal under the DMCA.

I’ll be anxious to see the improvements, but I found the rival Bookshelf app to be the better reader at this time, even though ereader was free and Bookshelf was not.

Downloaded my eReader.com ebooks and am reading away. Congratulations!

We’re using the standard iPhone gestures, so you swipe your finger across a page (about a quarter of an inch will do) to flip pages. Tap the page to bring up the toolbar, which lets you get to the chapter dialog, find/find again, and font picker.

As Steve said, there’s definitely some more features we can add, but it’s a solid reader right now.

Steve, I for one would like to see the Apple menu, status bar across the top disappear! I really dislike seeing what time it is. I don’t own an iPhone so I don’t know if that’s a setting one can change or if a program can optionally override it.

I assume that the program keeps track of where you left off in each book you’re reading. Is that right?

Your release of this free program could prove costly to me! In fact, even though you’re not charging for it, it could cost me several thousand dollars! (iPhone + ATT contract for two years!) We’re pay as you go now, so that would be a huge change. And it would be because of ereader to a great extent.

Mike, autoscroll doesn’t mean it doesn’t have page metaphor! I never use autoscroll–I’m assuming that’s when you start it moving and it just keeps scrolling. Advance by page is something different. I do hope that screen taps, a la ereader for the Palm, are in there!