Dear developers,

after several years of not using Books.app, I'm just trying to come
back to it. So far, I like it. But there are some features (which might
or might not be easy to implement) that I'd love to see in future
versions (or to read any tip to have them instantaneous).

1) Jump to the search-field with CMD+f.
So many applications use this shortcut, so I'm used to it. Nobody
else missing this?

2) Have the ability to select multiple items in the gallery-view.
Maybe there's a reason why it's not there, but I'd prefer it.

3) Make the `New Book` window disappear with ESC
Again, many applications use this with pop-up windows...

3b) When I open the `New Book` window and close it without filling
in any informations, I'd prefer to not have any `New Book` entry
in my list.

4) Have a meta-list containing all books
What apple did with iTunes and iPhoto and such -- to have the
ability to view all books in a gallery/list. I'd prefer the
philosophy to even keep books in there if I delete a list
containing them, because the book might still be there, just the
list changed. And it's easier to see how many books you have in
total.
I quickly tried to do it via SmartLists, but I couldn't figure
out what criteria to set. Some books of mine are old and don't
have any ISBN or such...

4b) Ship several SmartList-examples.
Again like what apple did in iTunes, give me a list like
`conferred`, `10/20/50 most recently added`, `books with
missing ISBN/title/...`.
I think they should be easy enough to create and help some
people to find some books more quickly.

5) Make me use umlauts
I, but that might be a problem with my system, cannot seem to
use `ü` in book titles when quickfilling with amazon (de/us).
Nice enough that it works with `ue` in this case, but I'd prefer
to write the title as is... (same for ß etc.).

6) more SmartList options
I'd love to have options like:

[title] [is set]
[author] [is set]

But that relates to 4b I guess...

Well, actually I didn't search around long to see if these requests
have been done before, I just wanted to tell you my opinion. Apart from
that, keep up the great work.

Andy
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