After using FBReader for many years, I thought I would evaluate EPUB readers again. I have some EPUBs with pretty specific publisher CSS and I'm hoping to find a reader that will render these as well as calibre's reader does. And also support my other wanted features.
So far Bookari and PocketBook do the best CSS rendering that I have tested. But neither is quite perfect based on my (possibly too high) requirements. Here are the short comings for me.
Bookari
- No Image Zoom (for details on maps, etc)
- A bit slow on my older tablet running 4.4 (yes, I know it's old)
- very minor, would like to turn off format tag on book cover
PocketBook
- no TOC display on android 4.4. Works fine on android 9
- doesn't support grouping by calibre series
For both of the above, I would like more options for the display of the optional progress bar. But that's not a necessity.
Librera
I've started testing and have noticed a couple CSS issues it's not handling correctly so far, and no image zoom AFAICT.
Any info regarding how responsive are the developers of these apps?
Here are the main features I would want in my EPUB reader.
- full CSS support
- image zoom
- reading position sync
- calibre series support in library
- OPDS
- config of informative page footer options. Tick marks?
- performance on older tablet
If I am not understanding some features of these apps (that I think are missing or broken) I would love to hear about it. Or if there are other apps that would be worth checking out. Thanks.