Bookworm should support viewing more than 1 book or document in different tabs

[amirsol81]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Currently Bookworm doesn't support tabs for viewing more than one book or document. It supports multiple windows which has some limitations. If a new book is opened without opening a new window first, the currently open book is closed with no warning. Moreover, handling tabs, via Control+Tab and Control+SHIFT+Tab, is much more efficient and doesn't add to the number of open windows.

Describe the solution you'd like

Bookworm should allow users to keep multiple books opened in different tabs. In addition, as a new book is opened, the previous one shouldn't be closed automatically. Users should then navigate among them by Control+Tab and Control+SHIFT+Tab.

Describe alternatives you've considered

Additional context

[cary-rowen]

Although Bookworm does not support multiple tabs, it supports creating multiple new windows. You only need to press Ctrl+N to do this.
You can press Alt+Tab and Shift+Alt+Tab to switch between windows.

[amirsol81]

@cary-rowen Thanks for the clarification. I was looking for tabs instead of windows, but multiple windows are also acceptable.

[cary-rowen]

Hi @amirsol81
If you think the new tab is better, I can also reopen this.

[amirsol81]

@cary-rowen Tabs are more efficient, but given the development priorities concerning Bookworm, I suggest not moving towards a tabular approach at least for now.

[amirsol81]

@cary-rowen And one more point to consider.
In Bookworm, if a book is already open and one tries to open another book, the currently open book will be closed automatically. This is not the behavior in, say, QRead, the Kurzweil 1000, MS Word, etc. So in order to open a second book in Bookworm and keep the previous book open, one should create a window first. That's why I say the tab-based approach is more efficient. But at least the current, window-based approach should be better documented along with its limitations.

[cary-rowen]

To track, reopen this, it would be even better if you can make the title and description clearer.

[amirsol81]

@cary-rowen Sure, but it seems that I can't reopen it. Guess you should do it as a contributor.