Community Wishlist Survey 2020/Archive/Improve the PDF/book reader

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Improve the PDF/book reader

N This proposal is primarily for Commons

Problem: When we view a scanned book in PDF or DjVu format in Commons or Wikisource, its always single-page view. Every-time we go to the next page, we need to click on the drop down menu of pages. See this book in Commons for example. For book readers, its more like viewing images than reading books. This not only creates difficulty in reading, but also in identifying missing, duplicated pages etc. if the file needs to be corrected.
Who would benefit: Commons & Wikisource editors and readers
Proposed solution: Implement the open-source Internet Archive BookReader in all wikis specially Commons and Wikisource. For the same book in Internet Archive, see the difference. It has features like single view, double-page view, thumbnail view, zoom and a wide variety of other features.
More comments: Proposed in Community Wishlist Survey 2016 and 2019
Phabricator tickets: phab:T154100
Proposer: as before in 2016 and 2019. Bodhisattwa (talk) 12:36, 9 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Bodhisattwa: Implementing bookreader for Commons is out of scope for this year's wishlist, but we could probably do some work around easier/smoother navigation for the Page NS on Wikisource. Would this be useful? Would you be able to re-scope this wish to focus just on Wikisource? Perhaps this is also related to the Ajax editing of nsPage text wish? —Sam Wilson 19:16, 13 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]
As we've received no reply, I am archiving this as a Commmons-centric proposal. Thanks for your participation, nonetheless! MusikAnimal (WMF) (talk) 00:47, 19 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]