Hi Carsten, nice to see you have been busy working on improving this program.

I just checked out the improvements to the program, and using the supplied Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, that I used as my example of the shortcomings of version 0.1 I loaded that e-book, though it should really be called a d-book / d-pub, as these books are in digital format, not electronic format - which like e-mail is a mis-noma, and certainly not your fault Carsten.

Yes the title, author, date of creation, and supplier information is now shown, and seems to be correct in this v0.2 you made available.

However, the thumbnail of the bookcover that is shown is very small, too small really, so much so that it really reminds me of 'greeking' in early word processors like Pagesetter. It would be an improvement if you could allow a larger space or an adjustable size for the thumbnail to reside within the open/close area of the header. Do you think you can achieve this?

Anyway, onto the content of the Woman in White d-pub/e-pub book.

I loaded/switched to The Story Begun, and noticed the following errors, lots of missing text, so there are a few words on 5 lines, which truncate before they even reach the middle of the page, even though the scrollbar indicates there is a lot of text that follows on from what is initially visible, though there are no more words/letters when you scroll down to the bottom of the area the scrollbar will allow. So what you see in epub reader is:

Man's resolution can achieve.
public attention in a Court of Justice.
as he has spoken before them.
relate their own experience, word for word.
heard first.

The book - when it is shown correctly - has the following text, the words that epub reader shows I have shown in BOLD:

"THE STORY BEGUN BY WALTER HARTRIGHT

(of Clement's Inn, Teacher of Drawing)

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

If the machinery of the Law could be depended on to fathom every case of suspicion, and to conduct every process of inquiry, with moderate assistance only from the lubricating influences of oil of gold, the events which fill these pages might have claimed their share of the public attention in a Court of Justice.

But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse; and the story is left to be told, for the first time, in this place. As the Judge might once have heard it, so the Reader shall hear it now. No circumstance of importance, from the beginning to the end of the disclosure, shall be related on hearsay evidence. When the writer of these introductory lines (Walter Hartright by name) happens to be more closely connected than others with the incidents to be recorded, he will describe them in his own person. When his experience fails, he will retire from the position of narrator; and his task will be continued, from the point at which he has left it off, by other persons who can speak to the circumstances under notice from their own knowledge, just as clearly and positively as he has spoken before them.

Thus, the story here presented will be told by more than one pen, as the story of an offence against the laws is told in Court by more than one witness—with the same object, in both cases, to present the truth always in its most direct and most intelligible aspect; and to trace the course of one complete series of events, by making the persons who have been most closely connected with them, at each successive stage, relate their own experience, word for word.

Let Walter Hartright, teacher of drawing, aged twenty-eight years, be heard first."

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So I am sure you can see that much of what makes up, even just the initial part of the text for the book is not displayed for the majority of what should be visible. The same applies to basically the rest of the book, and really this alpha does not make the program useful, but I can certainly see that you have made some improvements to the program, and I encourage you to continue as I feel sure you will master this d-pub/e-pub format before long, and then we will all be able to have the benefit of viewing such books with our MorphOS systems.

The adjustable bar in the middle of the program GUI may be suitable for the area designated for the bookcover, and if the program allows the image to resize as this area is adjusted larger then this may be a useful gadget in the header area of the program, or would you use a different method of achieving that?

I see you have added some font settings as well, which will no doubt make reading such books a lot easier for those who need larger text to be able to read such 'books', once the program displays the text and formatting correctly.

I cannot wait for the next version, and good luck with it.