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I like this app, and I don't regret my purchase, but I'm also frustrated with it. It has such potential, but it falls short in several key places.
For casual reading, I like it. It's quick, it doesn't take forever to load a book, the tagging system and themes, bookmarking and highlighting -- all mostly good, but there are things that would make it even better:
- Filter view by folder location (Planned)
- Filter view by multiple tags
- Remember filtered view (Planned)
- Be able to update author and book cover
- Series info!
- Be able to read the Calibre .opf file when importing a book exported from Calibre. Saves retagging items.
- Remember zoom level (Planned)
- Default language when not specified (Planned)
- Be able to tag books when importing in bulk (with multiple tags, if desired)
- Theme customization:
- Be able to enter RGB values for colours when creating a default theme - my fat fingers can never zero in on the exact colour I want within the tiny box.
- Font family support
- Specify background image -- I rather liked the paper look you could select in CoolReader. Not critical, but I'd still like to see it.
- Screen brightness/font sizings gestures toggle on/off. I don't know how many times I've accidentally adjusted brightness and font when I'm trying to do something else.
- As mentioned by loyufai, make the area near the bookmark ribbon 'immune' to page turn.
- Highlighting when you wish to stop at the first or last word on a line can be diffcult. I -find myself zooming in to a huge font size to do this.
- Option to use other dictionaries. Colordict and the imbedded dictionaries are a start, but I'd like to be able to integrate some of my others as well. I'm not always online to access web definitions.
In regards to using Mantano for 'work' reading, unfortunately, I've mostly reverted to using other apps or doing the work on my laptop/desktop instead. Most of the reading I do in this regard is journal articles, drafts/proofs, and reading books sent to me for review.
Eh, I've ran out of space.
Regards,
Peake
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