Please consider adding "jump" feature about iphoneebooks HOT 8 CLOSED

This is a very good idea.  I'll try to make it happen for 1.0.

This is looking to be very difficult, unfortunately--there's no way that I can 
find to determine how large the 
Scroller view is, which means I can't get a percentage of the view, and 
likewise I can't tell where a percentage of 
the text would fall.  What I may do instead is add "superscroll" buttons, which 
would allow you to jump by, say, 
ten screenfulls.  Would this do?

Is it possible to simply count the number of bytes in the text? Or is there any 
other method that counts the text, even roughly?

As bottom line, yes, I think ten-screenful jump will work.

Let's do some simple maths. Take a 500KB txt file as example (it's almost the 
largest single file size without freezing the app), it contains 250K chinese 
characters. Usually I have about 200 ~ 250 chinese character per screen, so the 
entire file is split into about 1000 pages. To scroll to 50% of the book, which 
is 
500 pages, I need to tap on "superscroll" 50 times. That should be OK.

Please make sure if I tap superscroll quickly one after the other, the 2nd tap 
doesn't cancel the previous scrolling. In current version, if I tap the bottom 
of 
screen too quickly, the 2nd tap cancels the first one. This made fast scrolling 
impossible.

Thanks!

It's certainly possible to get the length of the text.  The problem is that the 
UITextView doesn't scroll by text, but 
by pixels, and there's no way (that I can find) to match pixels with text.  So 
even if I knew where 50% was in the 
text (trivial, of course) I don't know where it lies in the rendered view (or 
even how large the rendered view is).

There is one possible solution, but it's horribly ugly.  I'll keep you posted.

Another aspect / tack you might want to try is take a look at how the iPhone's
contact list allows you to scroll - and see if perhaps that gives any clues?

I'm a coding idiot, and completely okay with that. :)

I just want to add my 2cents here. A super scrolling or chapter / search 
function is
all I am pining for in this app. Thanks so much for this. I am a big eBook 
reader and
am thankful to have this on my iphone.

I just posted to the SVN a hideable slider which will allow you to scroll from 
the beginning to the end virtually 
instantly.  It will be in the next release.