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Hello Micah.
Since updating to IOS5, and the loss of Stanza I have checked out many readers and only Bluefire and Megareader somewhat make the grade.
I do not want to use Megareader because it disregards the book's format and for many books, the built in formatting is very important.
Bluereader is, as far as I can tell nearly flawless in it's rendering, so I have decided it wil be my primary reader app from now on.
A few suggestions:
1. OPDS support. Since buying the iPad, I hardly ever fire up the laptop, it really becomes very inconvenient to do so now and have to deal with iTunes to transfer books
2.- configurable tap zones, the default (tap on right -next page, tap on left - previous page) is fine for right handed people, but I am left handed, and tend to hold the pad with my left hand. I would love to be able to configure both tap zones to do anything I want, independently. In stanza, I had both configured to page forward, since that's the action needed most of the time, and use the swipe gesture (right to left) to page back and I only rarely do that.
3.- Series support in library. Calibre already sorts books by series, I would love to see a way for Bluefire to be able to remember that and allow the user to sort by series in the library view.
4.- pinch and zoom support for font size
5.- an easier way to switch between day and night mode. An icon on the toolbar perhaps?, I should not to have to dive into menus for such a commonly used feature
6.- likewise for an easier way to change brightness, perhaps as stanza did, a single finger swipe from bottom to top?
Anyway, for such features, I wold be willing to pay a reasonable amount of money, as no doubt many others would.
There's a huge market out there for a good book reader, and from what I can see no one is happy with the current offerings. You have an opportunity here to capture a large amount of orphan users, left adrift after Stanza's demise.
Cheers
Art
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