[skillachie]

@Faterson

Thank you for taking the time to share these screenshots and provide such a long and detailed post.

However, here we already begin seeing some of the current deficiencies of BookFusion on Android when compared to BookFusion on iOS. (I know it's only temporary.) For now, BookFusion on Android doesn't support paragraph alignment (no "justify paragraphs" is possible). Of course, that's elementary functionality. It was only added to BookFusion for iOS a few weeks ago, so I'm sure it will be added on Android as well.

Another deficiency is the inability to load custom fonts in BookFusion. I really like only two fonts currently offered by BookFusion: Bookerly and Volkhov.

Yeah, all the other BookFusion fonts are usable as well, but I just don't find them all that attractive.

This is and always will be entirely subjective. App developers can never oblige everyone's tastes in terms of fonts, so really the only proper way to deal with this is to enable custom fonts.

Yes, those features will make their way to Android later this year.

One thing we do not do currently is support custom fonts as you said. However, we plan to look at adding this. Do you use any other fonts besides Libre Baskerville? Just curious

You can also see the very nice footer offered by Moon+ Reader, whereas in BookFusion, there is no footer and header at all, as you read your book. In BookFusion, you need to tap the center of the screen, and only then, headers and footers appear. But unlike in Marvin, they are not customizable in any way. So, when it comes to headers and footers, there is huge space for improvement for BookFusion.

You can read and keep the headers and footers active by just skipping between the pages but when you tap it will remove both the header and the footer.

You are right that they are not currently customizable. Out of the list of items we might look at this one last to make it customizable. We will be adding items such as estimated time remaining, chapters and so on in the footer before looking at making it customizable

To sum it up, @skillachie, I don't think any major fixes need to be performed for BookFusion in order for it to be usable on a black-and-white e-ink device. I believe BookFusion on e-ink is just fine as it is now. Any issues I have observed are issues with the Android app, and have nothing to do with the black-and-white e-ink screen.

Maybe, if you could create an exclusive "Snow White" theme for BookFusion, that would probably be appreciated by e-ink users. Because any dark interface element tends to look awful on an e-ink screen. But even without such a "Snow White" theme, BookFusion is perfectly usable on e-ink as it is now.

This is great to hear which means we will be able to officially support Android e-inks much sooner. That was our thought as well that the themes might need to be tweaked , also disabling all animations and making other optimizations

Here, though, is another nasty Android bug, @skillachie, I discovered in BookFusion while testing it on the e-ink reader: when you open a PDF file in BookFusion for Android, it resets the fonts in all of your EPUB books (!) back to the default font, which is, naturally, ugly. It makes no sense for this to be happening, but it does happen – on Android. This nasty bug doesn't exist in BookFusion for iOS and for the web.

Interesting, we will try to replicate this and have it resolved. Thanks for reporting.

Some other Android bugs I noticed earlier were rearing their ugly heads on e-ink also. For example, you open a book, read it for a bit, yet it fails to appear in the upper You're Reading section. Once again, it's only a bug occurring in Android; iOS and web are fine.

We will have this resolved.

We will investigate and post back once we push a release with these two bugs fixes.

Therefore, @skillachie, it would be great if you could enable these various types of underline in BookFusion as well, and they can then, on black-and-white e-ink devices, nicely provide the functionality typically provided by highlight colors on color-enabled screens.

To be honest, we were planning to add just a single underline but the above makes sense for e-ink devices.


Thanks again for taking the time to get back. Updates are much faster in iOS but they are all coming to Android as well