Feature Requests

[Head_Librarian]

Here, you can share your thoughts on new reader features. Readers have inspired many innovations, so if you have any ideas or suggestions, please contribute to the community.

[SleepingPanda]

A way to look at the internals of a currently loaded book would be great.

[Ligia]

A way to look at the internals of a currently loaded book would be great.

Hello! Please describe your idea in more detail.

[SleepingPanda]

A way to look at the internals of a currently loaded book would be great.

Hello! Please describe your idea in more detail.

Sorry about that. Here's my current problems:

A lot of the times when downloading a book from ZLib, the book file and its structure is heavily modified from its original retail form due to being converted from another format. Often times there is no meaningful difference when viewing it, but there are cases especially when books use alternate script for eastern languages that these modifications cause the text to not render as they should.

A lot of the files currently on ZLib are missing font files that are referenced in the css of the book. A reader won't know this until they've already downloaded the book and attempt to view it in their reader software. In a lot cases these issues are minor, but they are an issue for users on operating systems that don't provide those fonts by default.


There's no way currently to tell what's being used on Literata. With the ability to view the internal file structure and even the contents of css files, these issues can be assessed beforehand. This would help greatly with weeding out bad files and with wasting quota/bandwidth.