12-24-2012, 01:10 PM | #1 |
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Best and worst of Apple ereaders
What are the best and worst aspects of the apple ereaders?
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12-24-2012, 01:35 PM | #2 |
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Apple doesn't have any ereaders. They make tablets and handhelds.
And if you're referring to reading apps, Apple still only makes the one: iBooks. |
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I suspect the OP means "reading apps for Apple devices".
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12-24-2012, 01:42 PM | #4 |
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12-24-2012, 01:48 PM | #5 |
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Well, if people ask broad questions, they'll get broad answers .
Personally, I use three reading apps on the iPad: Kindle app for Mobi books. Bluefire for ePub Goodreader for PDF All very good at what they do. I don't think there's any one reading app that's best for everything. I'll leave it to others to recommend OSX reading programs. |
12-24-2012, 02:33 PM | #6 |
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There's the one problem with iOS reading apps in general. You have to use the File Sharing feature in iTunes or something like Dropbox to load books. Not very user friendly.
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12-24-2012, 02:54 PM | #7 |
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I agree, for most of the reading apps, it's just not very easy to load or manage the ebooks. This is especially obvious when you try to load a large number of books. Past that I would say that many of the reading apps that I've tried, and I've tried quite a few, seem to be somewhat sluggish. I get the impression that most are more focused on adding the bells and whistles rather than just provide solid reading app. So far, I haven't run across any that I liked as much as iBook and Kindle for basic reading.
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My favourite e-reader software on iOS is the most recent sensation, Marvin. It's astounding. Prior to that, I preferred Stanza. I find both iBooks and the Kindle app lacking due to the extreme dearth of customization options offered to the reader, almost bordering on user contempt in some respects. If there's a weakness shared among various iOS e-reader apps, there seems to be some trouble with the highlighting functionality. It can be difficult to highlight a passage if it stretches across screens or across paragraphs. Probably some weakness in Apple's API. |
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12-25-2012, 09:09 AM | #11 |
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You don't have to use iTunes. You can also drop eBooks directly into the app directory (on the iPad/iPhone) from the Mac using DiskAid app (on the Mac).
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12-25-2012, 11:42 AM | #12 |
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Just a clarification, this is theory. You'll notice that this (ugly, in my opinion) 'paragraph snapping' behaviour also exists in Safari on iOS devices. I remotely remember reading a blog post by one of the Kobo developers commenting on exactly this problem and the version of the controls that are given to developers.
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12-25-2012, 11:48 AM | #13 |
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For the Kindle app you can use the Amazon Cloud to download your books from within the app or from a web browser you can select to send a book to your iOS device.
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12-25-2012, 03:36 PM | #14 |
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Well, the highlighting really is problematic. To illustrate, the two screenshots below... I wanted to highlight a great piece of dialogue in a Kir Bulychev story, and it turned out that instead of a single highlight, I had to make 5 (!) of them in Marvin (and Stanza and many other iOS e-readers behave similarly, so it's not a Marvin issue per se):
It's not a show-stopper for me, just annoying. Apple should get rid of that obligatory "paragraph snapping" Kris mentioned. |
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