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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Stanza is garbage. It doesn't work well enough not to be.
Apps that don't respect CSS are garbage. Apps have an override mode but still don't respect the CSS are garbage. When you have overrides, all overrides have to be able to be shut off so the CSS can be used where it's wanted. One thing some apps do is they screw up a text indent of 0. That has to be handled differently than a regular indent. If a text indent of 0 is going to be overridden, then it has to be separate from a regular text indent.
The other issue is fonts. Marvin is garbage because when you are in override mode, it doesn't respect the CSS properly. For example no embedded fonts are displayed.
So what iOS reading app allows you to see the eBook as the the coding says it should be and has proper overrides that allows you to turn all of the overrides off so you see the eBook as the coding says it should? Do these apps handle text indents of 0 so you can change the regular text indents while leaving text indents of 0 alone?
I'm guessing there isn't such an app.
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Actually, we've got through this kind of comparison in various threads before. Let me repeat some highlights for the sake of the "later-comers". Among the 3 apps that support EPUB as part of their offering and whose developers have hung around in mobileread forums, in choronological order, namely, Marvin, Hyphen, and MapleRead, only MapleRead satisfies JSWolf's requirements above regarding honoring zero-text-indent and embedded fonts.
Let's get the facts straight, regardless of your favorite ereaders.