Book Icons
I find the book icons useless because they are so tiny there is no way to identify the book. I used prgram scaling but it did not help. At least with abbreviations there is a visual indication of what book you are looking at. I don't claim to have all the answers but there must be a better way to quickly know what book you have opened without mousing over each tab.
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I don't know if this suggestion will help...but you can open your "History" and it will show the books that you have opened by an abbreviated title.
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Mark Watson said:
I don't know if this suggestion will help...but you can open your "History" and it will show the books that you have opened by an abbreviated title.
I think what Shawn was referring to is the book cover images that appear on the tabs whenever there are too many resources open in a particular pane for the abbreviated titles to be shown. When this is the case, one need only hover the cursor over the cover and the resource information appears, which is far easier than opening the history. But I think what Shawn is looking for is something more convenient than that -- the ability to know what the resource is without having to hover the cursor over it.
And I agree. Many resources have fairly distinct covers, so it's not a problem, but there are series (like the WBC, for example), where it is impossible to tell which volume is open because the covers are so similar from one volume to the next. Even with program scaling at the maximum level, the cover is still too small to give a sufficient indication.
I'm not sure what can be done about that, though. Perhaps the problem could be alleviated somewhat if, after the number of resources open in a single pane exceeded a certain point, they used multiple rows of tabs (since right now all of the tabs are squeezed into one row).
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If you mouse over the tab and not the actual icon the tab will pop open a window with a larger images and a short summary of the book.
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T, you hit it right on the head. I think multiple rows is a good idea. If not this, being able to set the maximum tabs to remain open, that way if the books reached for instance 10 books, the last you opened would automatically close. I would like to be able to , at a glance, see ALL the books I have open without opening history or hovering.
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