[skillachie]

Hey Faterson,


When it comes to EPUB 3 I think we can say that BookFusion is the best cross platform solution for EPUB 3 books. *

You know, as I mentioned previously, I don't really care if Moon (or any other e-reader) "respects the CSS".

To me, that's a technocratic way of looking at things. Egotistic, if you will: publisher-oriented, rather than reader-oriented.

As I mentioned, the first thing I do after opening any EPUB book, is to override the publisher's settings and preferences.

So, why exactly should it be important for e-reader software to "respect the publisher's CSS" if I don't wish to see it anyway?

Nope: what I care about is a nice, elegant display of the e-books I read.

Because I spend dozens of hours reading a particular book by intently looking at it, a nice display of the text is my no. 1 priority when choosing e-reader software.

By default we try to follow the styles defined when the books are created. However, we do allow for customizing various options.
We have a full override publisher settings that will be released soon starting with iOS as well. This will allow readers to have full control over how the book is displayed despite the publisher recommended CSS styles

Can BookFusion be that new option that exceeds both Moon and Marvin in quality? Maybe. The future will show. Right now, BookFusion is below both Moon and Marvin, in my experience. (And I'll post a brief list of reasons as to why, later on in this thread.)

As mentioned, the Android app is currently being updated. However, with regards to the iOS app, there should only be very few gaps that we do not cover that Marvin does. *Can you share the items that you consider makes BookFusion below both Moon and Marvin?*

To each his or her own but, you know, to me a "fixed-layout e-book" is an aberration.

I define an e-book as: here is a freely reflowable text whose looks I can customize to my own (not the publishers') liking.

Yeah, there can be some components within e-books that require

Haha. fixed-layour e-books are eBooks too. Our iOS app has solid support for epub 2 and 3 fixed-layout epubs that I can guarantee will be better than Moon and Marvin. But this wont matter for your use case*

Upon highlights/annotations export, Moon+ Reader (and Marvin, and BookFusion...) converts all highlights to plain-text. (Moon and Marvin don't even respect paragraph breaks upon highlights export; BookFusion at least does that, but that's not enough.)

See, that is something that is truly unacceptable. No e-reader software can aspire to be called "professional" if it mangles highlights (converts them to plain-text) upon their export.

That's because features like italic or bold are ways of communicating the writer's meaning. If you remove the author's emphasis from his or her text, the exported text is no longer authentic. It can no longer be used in any scholarly or professional setting.

This is interesting, we support exporting highlights to CSV,Markdown, PDF & HTML. And typically maintain the format of the highlight.*
We can definitely*have this fixed in short order. *Can you DM or email support@bookfusion.com with an example highlight. Screenshot of the highlight you made in the book and then screenshot of the exported highlight*

BookFusion developer, if you're perhaps lurking around here and reading this, I think PocketBook can really be a serious competitor for you.

Because whereas BookFusion limits you to 10 books for free usage (used to be 25, now only 10), PocketBook Cloud pretty much gives away 2 GB of free storage to every user, with no usage limitation at all.

Plus, of course, you can also purchase an e-ink PocketBook to give your eyes some rest, whereas there is no e-ink BookFusion e-reader.

So, I think BookFusion really needs to be a lot better than PocketBook, to counter all those advantages PocketBook is offering over BookFusion.

*There might be overlap now but based on, based on where we are headed, we won't*be competing and will be providing significantly more value than just storage and a basic reading interface. As a result the amount of storage will not be a competing factor. *At the end of the day, folks can always use Dropbox or Google Drive if they care only about getting more space.*
With regards to e-ink, the BookFusion Android app currently works on Likebook and Onyx Boox devices based on feedback from some of our readers. *We have not officially made optimizations for these devices yet but will do once the refresh of the Android app is complete.*

Right now, in terms of quality, BookFusion and PocketBook strike me as pretty similar. Meaning: perhaps tolerable, but not outstanding. They also share some of the same flaws: the main flaw being the impossibility to annotate image-based PDF files in any way. But whereas such a flaw can be tolerated in completely free software such as PocketBook, it's hard to justify paying a three-digit annual subscription price and still encounter such functionality gaps.

As mentioned, you can start annotating image-based PDFs today using area/image based highlights on the Web. *You can do this by right clicking on the area you would like to highlight. *Let us know if you like this functionality and we can prioritize getting it into iOS and Android much faster.*

For every dissatisfied geek user of corporate software, there are hundreds of happy users of that same software, with modest demands. So, corporations don't give a damn about geeks of the variety frequenting these MobileRead boards.

That's the sad state of affairs among e-reader apps, and that is, I believe, the reason why, in my estimation, no professional-grade e-reader app currently exists on this planet.

Nope, not a single 5-star app. Moon+ Reader Pro with its 4 stars might currently be the best of them all (as I perceive it).

We are trying to take a different approach, providing readers with the very best reading experience by going beyond what we are all so familiar with today. *If readers genuinely*love using our platform then we believe everything*else will fall inline.*