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Originally Posted by starfish777
I like Nook because it has a brightness setting built in. Instead of having to exit and go to Settings, Brightness, I can just hit the little Settings logo in the app, slide the slide while actually looking at a window of the page, so I can see how it will look, and then go back to reading. Very quick.
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Stanza allows lighting adjustment that is even easier--just slide your finger up or down on the left side of the screen.
In iBooks just tap the light icon at the top of the page and adjust the slider. (If the light icon is not displayed, tap the page center.) No need to exit iBooks and it is still pretty quick though not as quick as Stanza.
In Bluefire, tap the page center, tap Aa Settings, adjust the slider. You then need to tap Save to return to the page. Like most things in Bluefire, it is a bit slower to accomplish.
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In Nook, I don't think there is a way to sideload books. Pity as the Nook app is pretty good.
My favorite app for ePubs is iBooks even though ironically it offers the least amount of text customization. I like the dictionary and highlighting functions, and I especially like being able to sync bookmarks, highlighting, and current page to the iBooks app on other devices. Kindle is pretty good too with a great dictionary, but it doesn't do ePubs.
Unfortunately there isn't much money to be made in developing reader apps, so we probably won't see that killer reader app we all keep hoping for. I thought Bluefire might be a better app than it turned out to be, but they don't seem to interested in improving it. I think Bluefire is more interested in library distribution software and their reader was just a means to sell that. It is very unpolished at present, but who knows maybe they will polish it up some day. The big eBook store companies like Amazon (Kindle), Apple (iBooks), B&N (Nook), etc. don't seem to care about adding functionality to their elementary readers. I wouldn't mind paying $10 for a really good reader, but I doubt any developers will invest resources in a paid reader app with all the free ones that are available.