Link to a specific book page for easy map access - Map button

[Akatrielaiic]

I suggested it on your youtube.
I would love a way to easily access the map that many fantasy books have at the beginning. A fast check on it and back to reading, maybe pressing somewhere on the page (like the top left corner) or on the menu.

It obviusly require set up, telling kobalt which page is the map page.

I createed this discussion to keep track of it and see if others have any other suggestion related to this idea.

[Aron-dxd]

I'd like to see this as well.

Considering how maps are present in only a small portion of books, I think it's better to give the user the power to mark the maps than relying on autodetection.

Autodetection will be unreliable since there is no consistent marker or text that works across all such books. A scoring system(such as keyword matching in TOC, then keywords in image filename and alt text) could help but would be imperfect.

Instead, let the user mark the map themselves. In case of multiple maps, users can name them and then switch easily. One button then acts as a selector, and clicking again goes back to the saved reading position. The readers who need this feature are those who are most likely to set it up since some already use bookmarks as a workaround.

[Aron-dxd]

It's.... beautiful😭

Admittedly, I would've never thought of that UI. You're amazing, Nico!

Please do include this in a feature showcase on youtube at some point. It's super cool.

[Akatrielaiic]

Super! Better than i imagined eheh

[Aron-dxd]

Just tried out the nightly build for beta 6 and I'm quite happy with the pinned bookmarks feature.

I did notice that clicking "Return to page" after navigating to an image takes considerably longer than pages with just text. Is that expected? Also, there is no option to unpin the bookmark without removing it entirely.

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[glaucon1984]

I'm very happy this feature has been added to Kobalt.
I didn't know I needed this, now I cannot live without it.

[nicoverbruggen]

@Aron-dxd It's possible it's slower due to what it needs to draw on-screen (or, well, remove, first). The "unpin bookmark" option will be present in beta 6 when it releases soon, good catch.

[nicoverbruggen]

Now officially part of beta 6, although there's an issue with the sidebar not having a background, oops. Will be fixed in beta 7.