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Originally Posted by toddos
I checked it out a couple weeks ago and wasn't really happy with it. The UI is all kinds of weird in comparison to other apps, and their whole claim to fame of "getting rid of pages" is what every ebook reader does -- there aren't pages in ebooks. In fact it seems kind of lazy to me, since it's easy to render HTML in one long, scrolling "page". It's much harder to handle page breaks, widows and orphans (not that any other ebook reader does that), etc.
I guess if you prefer to scroll up and down smoothly rather than "page" through a book, this reader would be decent. For me, there are so many better readers out there that this app was a waste of bandwidth to download.
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I can't say yet that I'll prefer it 100% of the time, but I like auto-scrolling mode as a way of avoiding having to keep touching the screen as much, as well as helping focus my attention. The tilt-controlled scrolling speed option is interesting. It's nice not to have to worry about autolock kicking in because I'm not reading fast enough. So far, this is the only reading app I've seen that has this mode.
Also, with other apps I have had problems with excessively large margins (left right bottom), with no way to adjust (darnit, the screen is small enough as it is, without taking up 30% of it with whitespace). iFlow seems to not have this problem.
I'm discovering things I don't like: it doesn't keep up with rapid page turns, no section break indications, no 'night mode', no position indicator you can drag to move quickly to another section of the book, no means of organizing a large collection.
But it dares to be different, and I think that's a welcome thing in an environment where reader apps are mostly just copying each other instead of innovating.