Mac Desktop Apps Options?

[GordonGekko]

After updating Kindle for Mac to 1.17.1, it no longer accepts my Calibre sideloaded books.

OK, I have been putting them in Ibooks, I like the cleaner and less distracting interface, I can live with it but two things I wish it had; the ability to adjust the brightness within the app itself and vertical scrolling.

I guess the only way to use those features is on IOS, until I go that route are there any decent Mac desktop ereaders that have both of those functions, again for MACOS only, thank you.

[Cesca]

I wish it had; the ability to adjust the brightness within the app itself and vertical scrolling.

Clearview (available on the Mac App Store) lets you scroll DRM-free MOBI and ePub format books, but doesn't offer in-app brightness control. I haven't tried it myself as they don't offer a free-trial version.

I haven't really checked as I prefer to read on iPads or Kindles rather than my desktop computer or MacBook Pro 15 Retina. But I have never seen much available for Mac OS X or even Windows in eBook readers. I guess the market is too small for those platforms. Even in the iOS/Android OSes most of the reader apps like iBooks and Kindle have very limited book format settings. You generally have to get a 3rd party reader app like Marvin to have the ability to set book formatting to your preference. I'm not sure why there are so few options and most have very limited format settings, but that is the not so little, dirty secret of reader apps.

[kyteflyer]

There's Bookreader and Kitabu. I dont know if either of them do as you want, but since Bookreader has a lite version and Kitabu is free, you can check both out for zero cost. I like to use them but I am not a vertical scroller, rather prefer double pages... I've never looked beyond that.

[tomsem]

There are at least a couple of options for reading epub files in a web browser:
- Readium (Chrome browser extension) - should do ePub3 as well
- ePubReader (extension for Chrome or Firefox)
- Google Play Books (after you upload epub/pdf to your Google library) - no browser extension needed, and you can export annotations to Google Docs

[DaleDe]

ADE is available on Macs for reading PDF and ePub 2 and 3.

Dale