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I've pared my Mantano collection back to only the aforementioned technical titles in epub format, plus PDFs, for a total of about 500 titles. This is my reference collection that I like to have available at work and home. I don't plan on reading these all cover-to-cover, but do need them at odd times.

In the past, I've always used Calibre (or CC before KitKat complicated things) to squirt processed ebooks directly onto my device in the Mantano directory, then tapped the Import button in Mantano to discover and add new titles without having to create a second copy for Mantano. This has worked for some years since Mantano was new and I purchased it originally.

Today, after struggling through the process of importing the collection of ebooks already on the device, I tested by dragging three new epubs into the Mantano directory and tapping import. Apparently, it discovered 250+ titles it missed last time (it must have crashed). After many minutes, it's at 2% and not looking too promising. [Edit: It seemed to complete, but pressing Import again reveals 180 titles to be imported.]

While I can open individual titles through Mantano's file explorer, or presumably using something like CC, it is essentially unusable in the way that I've used it for years. Whatever broke seems to be related to the new version, as I never had this difficulty with recent previous versions.

Again, I still like Mantano and prefer its formatting for many of the same reasons others mention. I just want to confirm to the OP that there seem to be issues with the latest version.

I do like the consistency of formatting for fiction and light reading that Moon+ provides. Mantano provides some basic formatting control through theming, but some ebooks are just poorly laid out and I'd rather not fiddle with settings when switching books. For technical titles where indentation and formatting really matter, Mantano is definitely better. I find Google's reader and B&N's handling of complex formatting the best, but each of those has its own set of complications. Mantano is still (assuming it gets fixed) my preference.