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Originally Posted by lbrockmueller
I also am a big fan of BookMaster... I like the simplicity and elegance of BookMaster. Oh, to have such extraordinary choices now! I particularly like the ability of using Publisher Style in BookMaster with some user customization options, such as background and text colors.
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Thank you for your compliment!
This is way we describe BookMaster on
our webpage:
BookMaster is a beautiful, sophisticated, feature-rich and well-integrated ebook reader app for iPad that will pleasantly change the way you read, learn and organize.
As for EPUB reading, text and background color customization is relatively easy and common these days, but the ability to
turn practically ANY (beautiful) image into a usable (beautiful) background image for comfortable reading is not. For users who have a high aesthetic requirement, BookMaster gives her an easy-to-use tool for such unusual level of customization.
One of the biggest advantages of EPUB is that its core representation is based on the powerful and sophisticated open standard
HTML and CSS (of webpages), rather than some weaker or proprietary standard. Some of the earlier EPUB books, like those converted from Project Gutenberg's TXT ebooks, did not really take full advantage of the layout expressiveness of EPUB.
Thus, earlier generations of reader apps do not pay much attention to faithfully rendering according to Publisher's Default. In our test suite, we have a lot of beautifully designed ebooks by well-known publishers. For these books, you really want to preserve their publisher's default and modify only one or a few parameters, rather than turning off their publisher's default and let some reader app to re-do layout from scratch.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Maplepop Edition) (AAIW), bundled with BookMaster, is just one such example intended to illustrate the importance of the ability of do
user-override of layout parameters
on top of Publisher's Default. It's interesting to use this ebook as a very useful test case to evaluate the sophistication of the EPUB layout engine under the hood. You may export the book to another app on the same device via "
Send to...". Attached is a screenshot of a page of Chapter VI. Pig and Pepper of AAIW, taken with
Calibre's e-book viewer. It does render faithfully. So does
BookMaster (of course!)
But some other reader apps that are discussed a lot recently on mobilread.com do not pass this test.
In general, BookMaster prefers to deliver sophisticated features without a plethora of options. It just works! 
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The one major feature I'm missing is the option for the time (clock) to display in the header while reading.
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This request and other similar requests that will affect the header and footer design will be addressed after the iPhone version is released (really soon).