iPhone Hyphen - ePub Reader for iPhone and iPad

[rGiskard]

Looks promising, but when I connect to my calibre opds server I'm faced with browsing humongous carpal tunnel syndrome inducing lists.

Perhaps you could add an extra layer of sorting, for example "By authors" would open a list of alphabet letters, so I could zero in on an author by his or her last name. A search function would also be killer.

When it comes to reading, it's great. I especially like the separate color formatting options for the text and background. Too often a low contrast sepia background with brown text is forced on the reader. I like my text black as my soul, with a slightly off-white background.

Thanks!

[hyphenreader]

Originally Posted by rGiskard

Looks promising, but when I connect to my calibre opds server I'm faced with browsing humongous carpal tunnel syndrome inducing lists.

Perhaps you could add an extra layer of sorting, for example "By authors" would open a list of alphabet letters, so I could zero in on an author by his or her last name. A search function would also be killer.

Great suggestions! I've been working on both search and alphabetical traversal of the cloud file and OPDS listings, as a matter of fact.

Originally Posted by rGiskard

When it comes to reading, it's great. I especially like the separate color formatting options for the text and background. Too often a low contrast sepia background with brown text is forced on the reader.

Glad to hear it - thanks!

[rGiskard]

Originally Posted by hyphenreader

Great suggestions! I've been working on both search and alphabetical traversal of the cloud file and OPDS listings, as a matter of fact.

Cool! I cannot take credit for the suggestion, it's how Calibre Companion handles large OPDS libraries. It's great to find Hyphen so polished and yet still under development, great work!

I have an iPad arriving this week so once I set it up I'll buy the iPad version. Mainly I'm testing readers on my 6+ in preparation for the iPad, but it's surprisingly good as a pocket reader.

[kyteflyer]

Still here, still enjoying and reading more books than ever. SO glad for the goodreads links. I can finally keep my lists in order.

Whats next?

[cedhax]

Is there a way for Hyphen to sync the last reading position of a book between two iOS devices without uploading the book file itself to iCloud? I have lots of books and do not want to use up my iCloud Drive capacity for keeping an extra copy of the books there.

[mattcurtis]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

Still here, still enjoying and reading more books than ever. SO glad for the goodreads links. I can finally keep my lists in order.

Whats next?

I'm having to divide my time up between the current version of Hyphen and the next major version (which is almost a completely different app) so a few of the coming updates are moving slower than I'd like. There's a few coming updates that aim to improve shelf navigation, syncing, and more

Originally Posted by cedhax

Is there a way for Hyphen to sync the last reading position of a book between two iOS devices without uploading the book file itself to iCloud? I have lots of books and do not want to use up my iCloud Drive capacity for keeping an extra copy of the books there.

This is something I've been considering, actually. Is this the kind of setting you're prefer per-book, globally, or both?

[democrite]

I'm back after a few months of returning to iBooks. While great for syncing annotations, and perhaps I'll divide my time between it and others, at least for that, I continue to have hopes for apps by the other guys. It's hard when it seems that many are made by one person or a few, here's hoping for the best.

Originally Posted by mattcurtis

I'm having to divide my time up between the current version of Hyphen and the next major version (which is almost a completely different app) so a few of the coming updates are moving slower than I'd like. There's a few coming updates that aim to improve shelf navigation, syncing, and more

Sounds great. I can understand that'll take a while. Forgotten if it's been mentioned, vertical scrolling? It's one interesting way, among many, to compensate for navigating on a device, compared to a book. Kindle had other interesting ideas. As far as vertical scrolling, I feel it's quite needed, and particularly, let's hope an app comes for macOS, it is in some ways natural, like viewing a PDF, and my hope is that scrolling and searching, on macOS and iOS becomes as fast and easy as with PDFs. Vertical scrolling like iBooks seems difficult. UICollectionView? ClearView for macOS is an interesting reader, with some unique features, though one app on iOS and macOS, consider or meditate upon that, please!

Originally Posted by mattcurtis

This is something I've been considering, actually. Is this the kind of setting you're prefer per-book, globally, or both?

Me too really need a syncing of position, annotations, bookmarks, etc. I'm ok with globally, and a back button, long tapped to show history if needed (that'd be interesting), should avoid any issues with losing ones place. iBooks solves syncing by adding it's own UUID in a .plist; Marvin goes by file checksum, far from ideal but understandable, since books can change let's say if one wants to add fonts, change CSS, is working on one's own book, gets an updated edition with corrections and wants to keep data, etc. ePubs don't necessarily have a UUID (in the .OPF or .NCX), but sometimes yes, and maybe that, the adept UUID, ISBN, etc. or something could serve as UUID, or there could be a fallback of what to use in other cases, or some UI, out of the way for those that don't need it or use it, to rematch ePubs as needed.

[hyphenreader]

Originally Posted by democrite

Sounds great. I can understand that'll take a while. Forgotten if it's been mentioned, vertical scrolling? It's one interesting way, among many, to compensate for navigating on a device, compared to a book. Kindle had other interesting ideas. As far as vertical scrolling, I feel it's quite needed, and particularly, let's hope an app comes for macOS, it is in some ways natural, like viewing a PDF, and my hope is that scrolling and searching, on macOS and iOS becomes as fast and easy as with PDFs. Vertical scrolling like iBooks seems difficult.

Seamless, continuous vertical and horizontal scrolling is a definite goal, and is being worked into the next major app version of Hyphen.

Originally Posted by democrite

Me too really need a syncing of position, annotations, bookmarks, etc. I'm ok with globally, and a back button, long tapped to show history if needed (that'd be interesting), should avoid any issues with losing ones place. iBooks solves syncing by adding it's own UUID in a .plist; Marvin goes by file checksum, far from ideal but understandable, since books can change let's say if one wants to add fonts, change CSS, is working on one's own book, gets an updated edition with corrections and wants to keep data, etc. ePubs don't necessarily have a UUID (in the .OPF or .NCX), but sometimes yes, and maybe that, the adept UUID, ISBN, etc. or something could serve as UUID, or there could be a fallback of what to use in other cases, or some UI, out of the way for those that don't need it or use it, to rematch ePubs as needed.

ePub identification is a tough one. Hyphen uses a file checksum as well, even though (like you mentioned) this doesn't allow for ePubs to be changed while remaining linked to sync data. Thanks for the input!

[kyteflyer]

UHOH! I've been getting crashes back to home page on occasion (not every time, so cannot reliably be produced) when doing a page turn. This is on my iPhone 5S and on my 6S. Has anyone else had this happen? iOS10.x (dont recall it happening in 9.x though it may have)

[hyphenreader]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

UHOH! I've been getting crashes back to home page on occasion (not every time, so cannot reliably be produced) when doing a page turn. This is on my iPhone 5S and on my 6S. Has anyone else had this happen? iOS10.x (dont recall it happening in 9.x though it may have)

Hello Kyte,

What kind of page turn are you using - scrolling, or page curling? Is this consistent throughout your library?

[JSWolf]

There is a bug with text-indent: 0. It doesn't work.

Another problem is the overrides override too much. There needs to be a way for the individual overrides to be turned off so we get the CSS default for each override

For example, the indents override all the text-indents in the CSS and thus, the bug. So please allow each individual override to have an off.

[hyphenreader]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

There is a bug with text-indent: 0. It doesn't work.

As custom CSS, or when adjusting the Paragraph Indentation slider? You may want to try toggling Publisher Styling > Text Indentation.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by hyphenreader

As custom CSS, or when adjusting the Paragraph Indentation slider? You may want to try toggling Publisher Styling > Text Indentation.

It did not work. Text-indent: 0 should always be honored. Do not override it ever. It's meant to be no indent. So overriding it means you get an indent.

[hyphenreader]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

It did not work. Text-indent: 0 should always be honored.

I'm a little unclear as to what you mean. Are you referring to the default ePub/Publisher styling now?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by hyphenreader

I'm a little unclear as to what you mean. Are you referring to the default ePub/Publisher styling now?

The first paragraph of each chapter and the first paragraph after a section break should have no indent. The problem is that it does. It does because the indent of 0 is being overridden.