To edit any other page, you either have to browse to it, which can be a cumbersome multiclick process using the current navigation system, or you have to click in the side column: Administer: Content: Books: YourBook.

At THAT point you get a truly great screen that lets you see the whole book at a glance and choose from editing, viewing or changing the weight.

I like this particular screen a lot, but would add to it some facility for reordering and editing the relationships of the book's nodes (editing the outline en masse) right on this page. I don't know exactly how this should look yet, but it ought to be possible. I understand that changing the weight affects order and you CAN change the weight on this page, but I am not entirely happy with using weight to control order in the context of a book, where exact order is critical. Weight as an attribute of a node in a looser situation - i.e. a collection of articles - is fine.

So to recap: when I click administer on any book page, I would like to be able to choose from any page in the book. In other words, I would like to get:

http://www.mysite.com/?q=admin/node/book/1

instead of

http://www.mysite.com/?q=admin/node/edit/1

or at least I would like the CHOICE on each page of administer page/administer book.

I do understand this is not how the rest of Drupal's node editing features work, but it seems more intuitive to me for books. Less clicks, and less thinking.

2. if you select "Administer: Content: Books: YourBook, then edit a particular page, when you finish editing and click the "Submit" button, you go to a page that is pretty useless:

It says only "this page has been updated" and gives you the option of viewing, editing, or returning to the main book edit screen. This creates extra clicks if you want to continue editing other pages.

After hitting submit, I would like to be dropped right back to the book editing screen (http://www.mysite.com/?q=admin/node/book/1)

to choose another post or view the node you just edited. You have the same options of "view" and "edit" for each node on this screen, just like on the "The story has been updated" screen that is currently shown, but you also have a lot more options - ie. to go on to any other page in the book. Or, perhaps instead of just a "submit" button at the bottom of the node edit page, there could be a "submit and continue editing this page" button AND a "submit and edit another page in this book" button. The titles need some work, but something along those lines.

3. When you click "administer: content" I would like the option of the content of a book NOT to show up in the node list. I would like only the book title to show up. In other words, once a node is incorporated into a book, it is treated differently.

Then, when you would click the title of the book, you would go to that book-editing screen that I like so much, where all the pages in the book show up in order, and with all those options.

To my mind, the fact a node is in a book adds a lot of attributes to it that should be easily editable, and also makes the BOOK the main unit, so that it is actually confusing to have individual pages show up in the node list like they currently do. I am sure this will not be a popular suggestion, since it goes against the way the programmers think of nodes. Being a user, I think of a book page differently than I think of a regular node. If the page is removed from the book, it should drop back into the common "pile" of nodes and appear on the list again.

4. When you click "administer: content: books" you get a list of titles of books in the navigation column. If the titles are long, they can get pretty squished, and extend down a long way.

The main content area of this page is basically blank. Why not use all that nice white space for the clickable list of book titles instead of the boilerplate copy that describes the book module which is currently there? Of course, the list of book titles should be sortable by all available attributes, like title, author, date added, etc.