There are some inspiring design ideas buried in the settings of einkbro and boox device settings.
I'd prefer its pagination controls were even stronger, but they're quite good so far as they go.
Another very sweet feature (for a time) was the ability to save and append websites to an ePub document. This should be pretty easy to achieve independently, but solves a number of problems:
- Collecting a set of documents under a single cover, say for a research or communications project.
- Strips all the Web cruft from pages and presents them as a straight linear text. Images can be included, but the incidental stuff (headers, footers, sidebars, animations, etc.) are all removed.
- The resulting document can be paged through rather than scrolled. Read in Your Preferred Ebook Reader (OK, several of these are also quite good), you can also bookmark, annotate, highlight, etc., individual pages or sections of text, something ... Web browsers have utterly failed to implement.
- Because an ePub is simply a collection of HTML files, it's quite possible to add, delete, or edit the resulting document (gzipped HTML plus a bit of stuff).
- The entire work can be styled to your preference either in the ePub CSS itself or, far preferably, through your ebook reader's controls. (Styled ePubs intended for third-party use are a crime against humanity.)
- Collections can themselves be curated, shared, etc., modulo of course fucked-up copyright bullshit.