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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
I'm potentially willing to pay a subscription fee for the right service. However, since the cloud functions are useless to me - I just want something to read on a single device; I'm content to manage file transfers myself - I consider a subscription a strong negative and the rest of the features would need to be exactly what I want.
Most important: Does it work offline?
I need an ereader app that works when I don't have internet access. Everything else is secondary. Dropbox allows me to set files and folders to "available offline." I can read books through it when I'm not connected. (Dropbox has a whole lot of other functions I find useful, like the ability to share folders and edit things after switching between laptops. I don't mind paying for features, but they have to be features I'll use. "Cloud access to things I can read" is not one of them.)
I want to know a lot more about it first. I asked some questions in the BookFusion thread. I'm especially concerned with personal privacy and data harvesting. (Why do you need birthdates of readers?)
I couldn't find a section about GDPR compliance. I'm not in Europe, but a lot of members of Mobileread are. |
We currently have readers from Europe as well and our privacy terms have been updated to be GDPR compliant since 2018. This communication that was sent out to all our readers last year. See the screenshot below of the message that was sent :
Responded to your questions on the thread there. As mentioned in the above post we do not sell Ads nor our users data and so have no interest in your actual birthday. As a general reading platform it is also used by children. To be compliant we ask for the birthday of users to allow us to filter out mature content and ensure they do not join a free library that contains mature content. We should be able to update this to ask the following questions instead:
Are you older than 13 years old?
Are you older than 18 years old?
Would you be more comfortable with the questions? Or it communicates the same message?
100% works offline. You can download all or select the books you want downloaded and they will be made available offline automatically. Besides storing your eBooks and allowing seamless syncing of highlights, reading progress and bookmarks, the cloud aspect of the platform also allows us to support most if not all eBook formats.
This is one of the reasons we are also not just a standalone app. It will be very difficult for a standalone app to support all eBook formats or a majority of the popular ones with all the bells and whistles that you are looking for.
If you do decide to try the platform even with a throw away account and send us some feedback let me know so I can still send you the $10 Amazon/Starbucks gift card. We are a sweet all in one application for epub, pdf, mobi, cbr/cbz though
Just try it .
Thank you for taking the time to talk with me