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Originally Posted by skillachie
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.
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Stanza supported all but CBZ/CBR, until Amazon bought it and killed it.
I want:
- Works offline, because where I most often want to read doesn't have internet. (Train/bus on the way to work.)
- Opens several types of non-DRM'd ebook
- Remembers where you are in each book when you close it, just like every dedicated ebook device does
- Allows some form of sideloading onto an iPad - don't care if that's direct drag and drop, or via cloud like Dropbox or Google Drive. But I need access to the files when the device is offline.
These are all features that dedicated ebook devices have. I'm not sure if any of them supported comic formats, but I consider that the bonus filetype; if I can't find it, I'll convert them to PDFs.
I'd also like font size change ability, I suppose, but I can probably cope without it.
I don't care about
- Ability to change from light to dark background
- Screen brightness changes
- Font changes
- Cloud syncing
- Media support (audio, video)
- Ability to make notes
- Dictionary
- Bookstore connections
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If you do decide to try the platform even with a throw away account and send us some feedback let me know
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I'll wait until it's not asking for my birthdate, and grab the free version. I know you say that info's only being gathered for compliance with various laws, but I have no reason to trust that the company won't try to sell that info at some point in the future. (If I like the free version, I'll consider subscribing.)
Also, you haven't said whether it works offline. I have no need at all for an ereader app that only works when connected to the internet.