MapleRead - eBook Reader and Server for iOS

[GERGE]

I decided to switch. That it can become a server won me over. Rendering also seems better. Library management is better too.

[GERGE]

If I could remove the header while keeping the footer, it would be great.

[cedhax]

Originally Posted by romad

Have not moved any PDFs to my iPad yet, but I'm talking about my iPhone which is the one with just about all the PDFs. I can't use MapleRead SE on the iPhone and MapleRead CX doesn't support PDFs.

I want ONE application to read both ePubs & PDFs on my iDevices, rather than one for ePubs and a separate one for PDFs. MapleRead SE is going to be the ONE app on my iPad; but I still need an app for the iPhone. If MapleRead SE was an Universal app, it would be on my iPhone in a heartbeat. Since it isn't, and if MapleRead CX supported PDFs, IT would be on my iPhone. Unfortunately, I am unable to see using a MapleRead product on my iPhone as none currently meet my minimum requirements.

@romad -
Why don't you try reading PDF with MapleRead SE on your iPad first? If you really like it, then you may request sbaylor to support the same kind of PDF viewer on iPhone. The more popular a feature request is, the more likely it will be considered. I think this is how it works here on various mobile forums. Look at some earlier posts.

Well, if you really want some other app, then just ignore the above paragraph.

[cedhax]

Originally Posted by GERGE

I decided to switch. That it can become a server won me over. Rendering also seems better. Library management is better too.

Totally agree. Indeed MR's built-in server is very unique, one of a kind for ereaders.

As for rendering, try exporting the bundled book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" from MapleRead to Marvin, and then compare the rendering of some illustrations, such as #23 (Cheshire Cat), and #41 (King), as shown in section List of Illustrations of the book by MapleRead and Marvin (Classic or 3) respectively. They look different! It's clear that MapleRead's rendering is the intended effect, but Marvin's isn't. I've also confirmed that Calibre rendering matches MapleRead's.

[Marsu - Jerry]

I really like the way MapleRead SE presents the books for reading (as compared with other epub readers for iPad.)

I'm looking for a way to do bulk download from Dropbox. I put my Calibre's library on Dropbox and would like to know if there is any way to do bulk download (without having to manually select each book). I think Marvin 3 can do bulk download that way.

Is there a way to do it on MapleRead?

[romad]

Originally Posted by cedhax

@romad -
Why don't you try reading PDF with MapleRead SE on your iPad first? If you really like it, then you may request sbaylor to support the same kind of PDF viewer on iPhone. The more popular a feature request is, the more likely it will be considered. I think this is how it works here on various mobile forums. Look at some earlier posts.

Well, if you really want some other app, then just ignore the above paragraph.

I did not say I WANTED a separate app; rather I NEED a separate app because:

1. MR SE is iPad ONLY
2. MR CX does NOT support PDFs.

Based on what has been said, I have surmised there is no intention to either make MR SE an universal app (best route) or add PDF support to MR CX anytime soon.

I'm basing this on the fact that SE is outstanding with ePubs and strongly believe it would be the same with PDFs.

AGAIN, my PREFERENCE is for a MapleRead app that supports both ePubs & PDFs AND runs on all three iOS devices (well, two in my case as I don't have an iTouch ).

Thank you for that link and I'll check it out. Meanwhile I understand that no one here knows of any good standalone PDF reader apps for iPhone iOS that I can use until MaplePop releases one.

[ssolitar]

I also switched from ibooks. I really think this a great reader, but I have one question. Is there anyway to manually sort the books within the sets you have created, like the way you can do it in ibooks, by manually moving the book covers to place books in the order you want them? I like the author, series sort that you can do in mapleread, but for books that are not in series, I would like to be able to make an author set, and then sort the books by date published. Thank you!

[romad]

ssolitar, out of curiosity, why do you want to sort by date published? Also, WHICH date published would you use: original for hardback? original for FIRST ebook version? date first published in ePub format?

Before iOS 9.x destroyed my carefully crafted over 6 years manual sort in iBooks, I did the basic Author/Title sort for non-series books and Author/Series for series books.

For background:
The recognized standard for "shelving" books is alphabetically: Author Name (Last, First) Title (disregarding any initial articles). To get more complex, there are also the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems (in these United States) for non-fiction titles using the subject matter of the item.

BTW, I am retired from my local county library.

[ssolitar]

I like to put them in the order they are listed in fantastic fiction or fictiondb. Just a quirk of mine, because that's the way I like to read them.

[cedhax]

Originally Posted by ssolitar

I also switched from ibooks. I really think this a great reader, but I have one question. Is there anyway to manually sort the books within the sets you have created, like the way you can do it in ibooks, by manually moving the book covers to place books in the order you want them? I like the author, series sort that you can do in mapleread, but for books that are not in series, I would like to be able to make an author set, and then sort the books by date published. Thank you!

I don't think you can sort books manually. Have you considered using the following trick? It does not require creating a new book set. It just leverages sort by Author+Series, and Book Info Edit.

For each book by a given author that does not belong to a series, assign a pseudo series named, say, "_", and a pseudo volume named, say, "published 2016", "P2016", "2016", or even "2016a", "2016b". (Note that in MapleRead, Volume can take any string value, which is sorted alphabetically.) You can easily experiment with Book Info | Metadata | Edit.

[ssolitar]

Thanks! I will definitely try this.

[cedhax]

You are welcome. But note that while MapleRead's "Volume" is a string, its Calibre correspondence "Number" can only be a number, but not an arbitrary string.

[sbaylor]

Originally Posted by sbaylor

With the iPhone edition (CX) behind our back and a stable current release, we will continue working on other new features. The highest priority feature right now is better secure synchronization, which will continue to work among all 3 editions of MapleRead across all supported iOS devices.

I'm really excited to share some good news with you now. Within the next 24 hours, MapleRead 1.6 will be available on the App Store.

MapleRead 1.6 is a major release with much improved sync capabilities and a simplified sync UI. Not only will you be able to sync reading positions, notes, vocab and bookmarks of your books across multiple iOS devices, you will also be able to access your synced notes via a web browser from your Mac, PC, iOS and Android devices.

[sbaylor]

Originally Posted by sbaylor

Actually, you are the first user who has ever reported running into such a limit.

It turns out that once we relax the internal size limit, importing a file 332MB in size is not a problem. The limit check code was put there long time ago for some reasons. As soon as we have time to make sure that it is safe to raise or drop the limit, we'll make it available in a future app release.

To clarify again, this issue is only applicable for PC Upload, but NOT for other import/download methods.

In the upcoming version 1.6 of MapleRead, there will be no longer such file size limit for PC Upload.

[romad]

Originally Posted by sbaylor

In the upcoming version 1.6 of MapleRead, there will be no longer such file size limit for PC Upload.

Great! Thank you.