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Watch on YouTubeTomeraider 3.5 Beta now available
Posted by PsionAndy on March 5, 2007 – 1:55 pm
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The first portable app that I ever bought was a copy of Tomeraider for my Psion 5MX.. For those of you that have never had the pleasure, Tomeraider has nothing to do with Lara Croft. Instead it’s the best reference E-book reader in the world ever. You buy the reader but all the books are free, and no DRM stuff to get in the way either
There are loads of free reference works, including Wikipedia, the IMDB, CIA World Fact Book, and a load (including fiction) at Memoware.
Last year Tomeraider had a major face lift, and er,,, well it probably didn’t do it any favours. So with version 3.5 they’ve gone back to the drawing board and come up with a better idea. You can get the beta from here
What else is new?
- Total Interface rewrite. We have come up with what we think is the close to perfect interface for big file browsing. It still works great on smaller ebooks but on the 1.3 million entry Wikipedia or the IMDB TR3 file it really shines.
- Aesthetic Improvements. The last version worked well but nobody liked it stark UI. We are back to pretty with 3.5.
- In page index list. This is a huge advance. No more zipping back between page view and index view. You can now navigate the file from within the page using the pop up index list.
- Elastic Scroll bar. This is like in Picassia, it works really well on large files. There is no point having a traditional scroll bar when you have a million plus entries because one pixel equates to tens of thousands of entries.
- In page find. Sadly missing from the last versions you can now jump to any page just by typing the name. This was in version 1 and 2 of TomeRaider and its reintroduction changes the app quite significantly.
- Much better ergonomics. Try it, you will see what we mean.
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