[Faterson]

Originally Posted by arpeggioaccele

The choice for me is obvious, leave Apple

That would definitely be a wiser choice than vice versa (leaving Android in favor of iOS).

But you can do as I did: ditch the iPhone mainly because of how bad and limiting iOS as an operating system is (but also, that gigantic iPhone notch/cutout is ugly as ****), and just continue using the iPads which, hardware-wise, are truly better than any Android tablet I've ever owned (and that could be close to 20).

Originally Posted by arpeggioaccele

I really need to switch to a ereader or android

It's not OR. You can switch to an e-ink reader AND Android at the same time. As I reported in this thread (I think) and elsewhere, the Onyx Boox line-up of e-ink readers is fully comparable, in terms of quality, to Apple's iPads or to Samsung tablets. All sizes of Onyx Boox e-ink tablets are available: from 6 inches through 7 and 8 and 10 inches all the way up to 13 inches. You also have color Onyx Boox e-ink readers at affordable prices (10-inch or 7-inch to start with). I own a 6-inch and a 10-inch black-and-white Onyx e-ink reader, and they're great. They run standard Android and Google Play Store, so you can install all Android apps on them – including such superb e-reader apps as Moon+ Reader Pro, BookFusion and, yes, as Jon recommended, KOReader.

Originally Posted by arpeggioaccele

But I still have the urge to learn swift and make the perfect epub reader

There are many people with dreams like that, but look what happened to Kris and Marvin eventually. This stuff will devour you.

By the way, don't you guys find it curious that all the finest e-reader apps come from developers located on islands? I mean, Kris (Marvin) is in Malta, skillachie (BookFusion) is in Jamaica, the gentleman developing Moon+ Reader is from Taiwan, and KOReader is Korean, needless to say. The proximity to water/the ocean must be miraculously beneficial to software developers, it would appear; I mean, the entire Silicon Valley as well...

Originally Posted by arpeggioaccele

I really shouldn't try since there's no sideloading on ios, thanks Apple.

Exactly. Apple and iOS are a hopeless case – one of imprisonment, and from the point of view of Apple fanboys, "Stockholm syndrome".

Originally Posted by JSWolf

You solution really is to dump either Android or iOS and just use one OS or the other.

Not really. As explained above, hardware-wise, the iPads are the best tablets, and I'm not giving them up. Also, quite a few cross-platforms are better on iOS than on Android (which has nothing to do with Apple, of course). You can keep the iPhone, though (I wouldn't want one for free, because I prefer to use a single phone, as opposed to my 10+ tablets, and I'm not giving up my Samsung Note for anything other than a follow-up model).

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Android is not all that wonderful.

It is. It gives you freedom to do whatever you want with your device. (As someone born in a formerly Communist country I perhaps appreciate freedom and despise all attempts to needlessly restrict people more than you do.)

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Most reading apps are very poor.

Just like on the iPad and iPhone.

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Moon+, FBReader, etc are all garbage.

There's no "etc." about it. Moon+ Reader is a great e-reader, the finest on Android, hands down. (Still, I would only rate it 3 ½ or 4 stars out of 5, because no 5-star e-reader app currently exists on this planet, on any platform. That's the overall sad state of things.)

Originally Posted by JSWolf

They ignore most of the CSS.

As do 99% of readers, except for Jon on MobileRead forums, who keeps harping about it for decades.

I love CSS – on the webpages I create and manage.

But I don't give a damn about the publisher's CSS in the e-books I read.

On the contrary: I define a superb e-reader app as one that allows us to override the publisher's CSS completely, and allows us to easily customize as to exactly how we can override it.

That is the no. 1 reason why Marvin and Moon+ Reader Pro are such wonderful e-reader apps: they allow us to throw the publisher's CSS to the trashcan easily with a single tap of a button.

In the world of e-books, every reader is his or her own typographer, so respecting the publisher's CSS is unimportant and marginal.

(Yes, by all means, include such a setting, "display publisher settings", too, for folks like Jon who care about such stuff, but most people don't care, and I'm with them on this.)

Originally Posted by JSWolf

If you do switch to Android, one app I can recommend is KOReader.

I agree, it's a great app. (Moon is even better in my experience, though.) The trouble with KOReader for me, however, is the same as with MapleRead – only in reverse: it doesn't cover all three mandatory platforms. Just like there is no MapleRead for Android and the web, there is no KOReader for iOS, so I must currently turn to BookFusion as my no. 1 hope for the future.