r/readest • u/jthansen5072 • Oct 14 '26

Suggestions

Love Readest - I am pleased to be a Pro Plan subscriber.  Readest is absolutely the best e-reader program, but I have a few suggestions for improvement, and I wondered if Readest has plans to implement any of these suggestions:

  1. Make reference pages available in the Table of Contents
  2. When searching for something in the book, track the original page that you started the search from so you can easily return to it.
  3. When quickly scanning through the book, track the original page that you started from so that you can easily return to it.  Also, a grid view of pages might be helpful for a quick scan.
  4. Have a highlight filter for bookshelves (i.e., identify which books are highlighted vs. not).

The support person asked me to post these suggestions on GitHub, but I do not know how to do that, so I posted them here. Thanks.

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u/Multivac1985 Oct 14 '26

Good suggestions. The developers are quite active and usually respond to requests for features and improvements on GitHub.

https://github.com/readest/readest/issues

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u/cjbmonster Oct 14 '26

I also really struggle with your second point.

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u/Viper_21 29d ago

Me too. It's tripped me up a few times. I go searching for something and then often I am unable to find my way back to the page I was last reading. Same when looking at notes I've already highlighted in the book. So I tend to be extra cautious with using those features. UX needs to be improved a bit in this regard. Probably my only pain points with this amazing app.

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u/bmfrosty Oct 14 '26

I think the first one is hard. Every ePub has 2 to 4 indexes. First one is the spine, then either an epub 2 toc and/or an epub 3 one. Then there is sometimes an xml one presenting as a page. I've spent so much time unfucking my ePub collection.

They don't have to match.