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Originally Posted by kyteflyer
Glad you found those to your liking.
I'm at the other end of the scale where "effects" are concerned. They leave me stone cold. Page curling I dont use, and the backgrounds in Mapleread are annoying. I imagine if you pay, you get more choice, but the free version has turned me right off paying for it. That is why I prefer Hyphen over all the others. No muss, no fuss.
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Amusing.
Hyphen (v1.2) offers two types of finger-following page-turn animation effect, namely curl and scroll. These two types match exactly those offered by MapleRead (v1.5.1), namely curl and slide.
For those who don't like "curl", you can simply choose "scroll" (Hyphen) or "slide" (MapleRead), as "scroll" and "slide" here are just different labels for the same thing. So I don't really understand why "scroll" is ok, but "slide" leaves you stone cold.
There are two kinds of "backgrounds" in MapleRead. I'm not sure which one was meant. Well, let's talk about both.
For "reading view background", MapleRead offers both pure color background and image background, while Hyphen offers only pure color background. Moreover, MapleRead offers custom background (color or image or hybrid) as part of a custom theme, with a user-friendly color picker (color wheel) and an image picker. (Honestly, I have never seen a better one among all the e-readers I have tried, including iOS apps, Android apps, and other e-ink readers.) So I don't really understand why "the backgrounds in MapleRead are annoying". In general they are of high quality and look very pleasing to me. (I enjoy switching the themes, which include the background, once a while even when reading the same book. Somehow it feels refreshing.) But if you don't like a theme, you are not stuck--you can easily create your own.
Specifically, any Hyphen background can be realized in MapleRead, but not vice versa.
For "bookshelf view background", MapleRead offers what it calls "Scenes". The built-in ones are very well chosen (see their screenshots). But again, if you don't like them, you can easily create your own scenes with any of your favorite images.
Moreover, you can dim the scene lighting gradually and all the way down to total darkness, essentially creating a black background. Alternatively, you can choose Library List View, which gives you pretty much a common iOS table view. (Honestly, I wish iBooks offered this kind of features years ago.)
Every MapleRead feature I mentioned above is free. Let's keep the facts straight. No muss, no fuss.
