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Scraper for downloading the entire ebooks repository of project Gutenberg
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Search result page could be simplier #90

Closed kelson42 closed 4 years ago

kelson42 commented 4 years ago

This is how it looks like to me: screenshot

To my opinion the icons on the right (both HTML and EPUB) stops us displaying many books because:

I propose that under a certain width, these icon are not displayes, which means that you have first to click on the item to then get the choice between EPUB+HTML. By doing so, we will be able to have a more userfriendly search result page.

rgaudin commented 4 years ago

I suggest that under 400px width we keep only the HTML icon so that it's still easy to browse and take a peak while removing most of the clutter.

What do you think?

kelson42 commented 4 years ago

We can try that first.... but this won't really solve the problem of to few places to display title properly on one line.

rgaudin commented 4 years ago

There are really long titles anyway and it was designed from the beginning to accomodate the title on multiple lines.

What bothers me with the current design is that the ratio useful info/space is not respected: getting EPUB and PDF is mostly used as downloads so it's OK to defer them to the article page.

HTML is different in that it's most probably what the user will want when selecting a content (by its title) so it's a useful shortcut.

It the titles were hardly readable, we surely should remove the icon completely but it's not the case, at least in your screenshot. Let me send screenshots of what I propose so we can decide.

rgaudin commented 4 years ago

before after

kelson42 commented 4 years ago

@rgaudin Good to me. Thx!

Popolechien commented 4 years ago

Ok, I missed this, but is there an easier to understand icon? The "5" (I suspect it is but am not even sure) will only speak to the 0.001% of people on Earth who've ever heard of HTML.

kelson42 commented 4 years ago

@Popolechien We all agree with you I believe... feel free to propose a new image in a dedicated ticket.

rgaudin commented 4 years ago

Agrees. Also, the HTML version here is used to be read-only so we don't care at all about the format being HTML. Icon could represent the fact that it's for direct reading vs download.

Popolechien commented 4 years ago

Ok, we have designer coming over, I'll ask him about this.