readMe: universal reading app.

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by 1611mac

In trying out Readme I find that it is "crashing" quit often as I explore all it's options/features. Several times when I've touched a hotspot it just crashes.... I'm using an iPad(1) with iOS 5.0

Ooh, interesting. I havent used it on my iPad because i read on the phone most of the time. Must give it a run shortly. Not a good look if its supposed to be universal. I also have ipad1 on iOS5. Will upgrade next year.

[Shell30Bell]

Originally Posted by 1611mac

In trying out Readme I find that it is "crashing" quit often as I explore all it's options/features. Several times when I've touched a hotspot it just crashes.... I'm using an iPad(1) with iOS 5.0

readMe has crashed several times for me as well, sort of seems to hang for a little bit and then shutdown. I'm also on iOS5 for my iPad. I like readMe a lot, but wonder how it will handle the 1800+ eBooks I want to load on to it. While there are a lot of features that I like, the one thing so far that I don't like is that it doesn't seem to sort titles in alphabetical order when I view in author order.

[frozennorth]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

Sadly, not well. It only seems to display regular, italic and bold, but not combinations of same. Where you were using span and class it only seemed to do regular. So its defaulting to regular when it doesn't know what to do.

That said, however, at least its managing some. Other readers I have noticed dont manage at all.

Thanks for trying the file. I might still download the app and check out it's features. I'm still using stanza for now as I haven't updated my phone to new os.

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by frozennorth

Thanks for trying the file. I might still download the app and check out it's features. I'm still using stanza for now as I haven't updated my phone to new os.

Don't update unless you absolutely must have iCloud. If I could go back only to 4.3.3 or .4 or .5 I would. But I can only go to 4.1 and that is way too far for some of my other apps.

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by Shell30Bell

readMe has crashed several times for me as well, sort of seems to hang for a little bit and then shutdown.

I've noticed this too, on my phone, now that I have added some more books. It won't cope with 1800.

Its just not Stanza

[AintLDS]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

I've noticed this too, on my phone, now that I have added some more books. It won't cope with 1800.

Its just not Stanza

Same here. iPad 1 with iOS 5. Will keep watching this app but Bluefire is the best option for me right now.

[Shell30Bell]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

I've noticed this too, on my phone, now that I have added some more books. It won't cope with 1800.

Its just not Stanza

Many thanks kyteflyer.

I guess I'll have to continue with iBooks as there are several aspects to Bluefire that I don't like: no metadata editing; no alphabetical title sort when sorting your library in Author order; the app continually going to Recent when started and the fact that the library handles so few books - any more than 350-400 and the continues to crash. I don't have any of those issues with iBooks

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by Shell30Bell

Many thanks kyteflyer.

I guess I'll have to continue with iBooks as there are several aspects to Bluefire that I don't like: no metadata editing; no alphabetical title sort when sorting your library in Author order; the app continually going to Recent when started and the fact that the library handles so few books - any more than 350-400 and the continues to crash. I don't have any of those issues with iBooks

How can you edit the metadata in ibooks????

[rxmom03]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

I've noticed this too, on my phone, now that I have added some more books. It won't cope with 1800.

Its just not Stanza

Did it get worse the closer you got to 1800? I'm kind of wondering what the magic number might be I use my phone mainly for fanfic on the go--I really prefer to read "real" books on my Nook Touch/Nook Color. At the moment I have around 250 stories on Stanza. About 10 of them are long books and the rest are fanfic of varying sizes.

Honestly, if readMe would sort by tags as well as author/title/date I would update my phone in a heartbeat! So far, I really like readMe that much.

Mary

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by rxmom03

Did it get worse the closer you got to 1800? I'm kind of wondering what the magic number might be I use my phone mainly for fanfic on the go--I really prefer to read "real" books on my Nook Touch/Nook Color. At the moment I have around 250 stories on Stanza. About 10 of them are long books and the rest are fanfic of varying sizes.

Honestly, if readMe would sort by tags as well as author/title/date I would update my phone in a heartbeat! So far, I really like readMe that much.

Mary

I didnt even try 1800. I sideloaded 400 initially and then found that although it seemed fast at first, it started falling over, not responding to taps etc, and it became really laggy when it did work. So I got rid of about half of those and still it wasnt crash hot. I think maybe its like the others, OK with a few books at a time but forget about carrying your entire library (I have over 4,000. Not happening)

This is a great little reader though, for maybe 100 books. I dont know what the magic number is and probably wont find out. I just caved in and have downgraded my 3GS to OS4.1. Syncing apps and music now, and will be so glad to get back into stanza.

[edit] It occurs to me, however, that there could be a relationship between the lag in readMe, and the generalised lag I have on iOS5 on my 3GS, in any case. I'll reinstall readMe and see how it goes under an older OS. If you have an iphone 4 or 4S, it might be OK.

[rxmom03]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

[edit] It occurs to me, however, that there could be a relationship between the lag in readMe, and the generalised lag I have on iOS5 on my 3GS, in any case. I'll reinstall readMe and see how it goes under an older OS. If you have an iphone 4 or 4S, it might be OK.

Thanks. I have an iPhone 4, so I think I will try loading 100 or so stories and see how that works. I'm wondering if it's the total size or the # of files that's the problem? And I don't know enough to be able to figure it out

Mary

[Shell30Bell]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

How can you edit the metadata in ibooks????

Sorry, didn't mean to give the impression that I can edit the metadata in iBooks. I load all of my eBooks into Calibre and edit the metadata through the Edit Metadata tab. Occasionally I need to use Tweak ePub and adjust the content.opf details as well. I like to have all of my eBooks in a series in reading order so I add a series code and book number in front of the title e.g. The Killing Floor is the first book in Lee Child's Jack Reacher series, so I would edit the title so that it would be JR01 The Killing Floor, the second Ebook in the series would be JR02 etc. As iBooks lists eBooks in alphabetical order when sorting your library by Author I can have all of my eBooks listed in the order I want.

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by Shell30Bell

Sorry, didn't mean to give the impression that I can edit the metadata in iBooks. I load all of my eBooks into Calibre and edit the metadata through the Edit Metadata tab.

oohhhh , yes. I'm glad thats what you meant. I thought I had missed some critical feature of iBooks.

Of course... when we had stanza, we could do that on the fly. Not change the opf but at least make some changes to author and title (and book cover if one was out there)

[rxmom03]

Originally Posted by kyteflyer

Agreed. Its a good app. I'm hoping that the developers will reply to my email and also register and join this forum, since they say they want feedback. They will get plenty here.

I'm curious if they ever got back to you? I emailed them also asking about a couple of features and giving them the link to this thread. So far, I haven't heard anything from them. It's a shame since overall I kind of liked this app.

Mary

[kyteflyer]

Originally Posted by rxmom03

I'm curious if they ever got back to you? I emailed them also asking about a couple of features and giving them the link to this thread. So far, I haven't heard anything from them. It's a shame since overall I kind of liked this app.

Mary

Not a peep. I also suggested they join the forum and address some of the issues. Told them I had begun a thread relating to their app. Clearly they have care factor 0, once they have your money.

I've managed to get my phone back to 4.3.3 and I'll be staying there with Stanza until...