Feature Request (Improvement/Modification to Attachment Flow)
Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 6:07 pm
Dear Jon / Bookends Developers,
I have been using Bookends for over a month and am really happy with it, and it has replaced Endnote / Sente effectively.
I think it would be fabulous if one could also view ones books in a way similar to a program like Delicious Monster. For book lovers who have attached cover art it is a wonderful feature to be able to browse books by cover. At the moment attachment/cover flow, which allows something like this, is a little restricted in that it does not allow one to see the rest of the data (and only limited data from one book at a time) and its slow in its current implementation.
Would it be possible to incorporate a separate view option (lie the screen shot attached). Attachment flow restricts the number of books you can view at a glance and you can't manipulate data while in this view. Plus it's great to be able to make selections of books while viewing their covers. For instance I love making a final selection of books to assign my seminars, or prioritize my readings, by scrolling through the cover art (as if the books were on my table, or I was viewing them on my book shelf.) Its also a fun way to view ones own collection of books.
I think this will also make Bookends appealing to people who are casual book collectors (its less useful obviously for journal articles) but you could snag the Book collector market (i.e. people who may have used the now defunct Delicious library or those who use Bookpedia or CollectorZ, and especially those who also need their library/database to also function as a bibliographic management tool.)
If this is too much to ask, perhaps it might be possible to
1) allow one to increase the size of the icons in the List view, or at minimum
2) incorporate attachment flow into the Browser (so one can still see affiliated data / groups etc), and
3) make attachment view a little faster, at the moment it seems to take a while to display more than 50 - 100 items.
I have been using Bookends for over a month and am really happy with it, and it has replaced Endnote / Sente effectively.
I think it would be fabulous if one could also view ones books in a way similar to a program like Delicious Monster. For book lovers who have attached cover art it is a wonderful feature to be able to browse books by cover. At the moment attachment/cover flow, which allows something like this, is a little restricted in that it does not allow one to see the rest of the data (and only limited data from one book at a time) and its slow in its current implementation.
Would it be possible to incorporate a separate view option (lie the screen shot attached). Attachment flow restricts the number of books you can view at a glance and you can't manipulate data while in this view. Plus it's great to be able to make selections of books while viewing their covers. For instance I love making a final selection of books to assign my seminars, or prioritize my readings, by scrolling through the cover art (as if the books were on my table, or I was viewing them on my book shelf.) Its also a fun way to view ones own collection of books.
I think this will also make Bookends appealing to people who are casual book collectors (its less useful obviously for journal articles) but you could snag the Book collector market (i.e. people who may have used the now defunct Delicious library or those who use Bookpedia or CollectorZ, and especially those who also need their library/database to also function as a bibliographic management tool.)
If this is too much to ask, perhaps it might be possible to
1) allow one to increase the size of the icons in the List view, or at minimum
2) incorporate attachment flow into the Browser (so one can still see affiliated data / groups etc), and
3) make attachment view a little faster, at the moment it seems to take a while to display more than 50 - 100 items.