Planned for September 2011 Release

[Julian Harty]

I have not made a release of the DaisyReader for 6 weeks, sorry.
However I have been working on the source code to make various
improvements to the software. Many of the changes are to make the
source code better quality rather than adding new features. (Your
feature requests were the catalyst which made me realise I needed to
invest time improving the code quality.)

Here are the planned improvements:

Support for Full Text Books http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/issues/detail?id=28
The support will be for Daisy 2.02 books. The first release will
display the contents of the book on screen. I will also try to find
ways to get the software to 'speak' the book, either using the
Accessibility features in Android e.g. TalkBack or by using the Text-
To-Speech (TTS) capability.

Provide feedback to users for interactions with the DaisyReader
software http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/issues/detail?id=45
This is one of the main reasons I decided to work on improving the
quality of the source code, as this capability is hard to add at the
moment.

I will also be reconsidering the navigation and gestures as we can
only support a limited set of gestures when using the compass-point
style of gestures (9 gestures including the center-tap, the software
already uses 7 of the 9). See http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/issues/detail?id=27
and http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/issues/detail?id=37
for suggestions by 2 existing users. Please tell me what gestures you
would like to use to increase the chances you get gestures that are
useful and relevant to you. You can either comment in this discussion
group, or by adding comments either if these issues. You can also
create new 'Issues' to provide proposals and ideas. Here is the link
to create a new 'Issue' http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/issues/entry

I would *like* to add the ability for users to create bookmarks and to
use them for navigation. See http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/issues/detail?id=48
for more details.

Another navigational feature is the ability navigate directly to
sections of the book. I don't know if I can include this, however I'll
mention it now in case some of you tell me it would be important to
you. If so, I will try to add this capability sooner, possibly before
adding the bookmark facility. See http://code.google.com/p/android-daisy-epub-reader/issues/detail?id=49
for more information.

I have received a partial translation of the software into Japanese. I
am happy to include more languages if you are willing to provide the
translations. We will probably need some revisions to the current
translations for all the languages as part of the work to add new
features and capabilities. You are welcome and encouraged to help if
you have the skills and the time.