[Faterson]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

There is an Android version of KOReader too, AFAIK. I don't know if it's available in the Playstore, though.

It turns out it's not. I've now managed to locate KOReader's homepage, under the witty address koreader.rocks, and it explicitly says KOReader isn't available in the Play Store.

Installation instructions for Android are posted on GitHub:

https://github.com/koreader/koreader...ndroid-devices

I don't really mind such workarounds, so perhaps I'll be giving it a try, but I'm not as motivated to test KOReader as I am to test BookFusion, because there is no KOReader for iOS or Windows.

Originally Posted by skillachie

We had to spend sometime writing from scratch core EPUB libraries across iOS, Android and Web to allow us to provide the experience power readers expect. Took us longer than anticipated but we are dedicated to our mission.

That's great to hear!

Originally Posted by skillachie

Curious though, for the iOS app what do you find lacking when compared to Marvin 3?

I'm preparing a list of issues for you (currently only available as a draft in Dynalist, the outlining software I use), and will post it later in this thread as soon as I find a minute to make the list more organized.

Originally Posted by skillachie

You can start annotating OCR and Image based PDFs today using area/image based highlights. You can do this today by by right clicking on the PDF in the Web app. This feature is currently on the Web only but will be rolled out to iOS and Android soon.

Ah, thanks! I read about that new feature in your changelog, and so I was mystified to find that it doesn't work on iOS or Android.

So it's there on the web for now. Curiously, that's where it's probably least needed (I don't really use the web/desktop for reading books; only for processing annotations made earlier on handheld devices), but I get that you need to start implementing new features somewhere, so it's perfectly OK and understandable if a new feature is first only available on the web, and only later on iOS and Android. I'll be patient!

By the way, it goes (yet again) to the credit of Moon+ Reader that it at least attempts to make the annotation of image-based PDF files possible, but this functionality in Moon is rather unpolished. For example, the thickest drawing line supported by Moon is still too thin for highlighting in certain books. So, there can be pitfalls when implementing this feature.

Originally Posted by Faterson

See my tweet from back in July on this. Among other things, the screenshots there prove that e-books do look a lot better in Moon+ Reader and in Marvin than they currently do in BookFusion...

Originally Posted by skillachie

Hehe did you use the same font style , margin, line space & background colors? See no reason why it should look significantly different

Nope, I didn't use the same ones, and that's one of the features sorely missing in BookFusion currently, when compared to Marvin and especially Moon: background textures.

Please take a look at Moon+ Reader: it's absolutely terrific and exemplary, in the way it makes it possible to set up background textures (custom-uploaded user pictures, too!) for reading your books.

BookFusion (as far as I can see) currently only supports solid background colors, and that's no match for Moon's and Marvin's background textures.

Marvin lags behind Moon in that it doesn't make custom background textures possible, only those provided by the app, but at least there's something other than solid-color backgrounds... I kept requesting custom background textures from Kris, but this feature simply never got implemented in Marvin while it was still in development.

BookFusion must match Moon's functionality in this respect if it hopes to compete with Moon.

It seems impossible for me to overstate the importance of custom background textures – as mentioned earlier, you spend dozens of hours intently looking at the book while reading it, so it makes a huge difference whether what you're looking at is pleasant to look at or not. And sorry, but I just find all solid-background colors too dull and unattractive; it's "custom background textures or bust" for me.

Also, I don't think BookFusion currently makes it possible to use custom fonts. Yeah, there's a pretty nice selection of fonts in BookFusion, but custom fonts are custom fonts. Once again, Moon+ Reader absolutely shines in this department, and you can load as many custom fonts in Moon as you wish. I expect nothing less from BookFusion.

Those are a couple of missing features to start with (oh: and let's mention Marvin's fabulous feature of full customization of data in headers and footers!), and I'll get back to you with the list ASAP.