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arpeggioaccele · 10-01-2023, 05:27 AM

Thanks for your response, I did not mean to say that there's anything wrong with BookFusion, I think it's a wonderful app, with a lot of my favorite features like seamless scrolling between chapters and description previews in the bookshelf. I'm just pedantic, lol. (In fact, I would simply use a plaintext viewer if it had a good catalog manager.)

I did not know that Calibre Sync was an option, that sounds great!

For additional context:
- I installed BookFusion on both an iOS device and MacOS.
- I read in scrolling view most often, I use paged mode when using a keyboard sometimes.
- I got used to Iowan Old Style font so I always look to switch to that first.
- I read from large collections of short epubs that I download, which makes it difficult to browse. As I understand, most readers do not do this and BookFusion is designed perfectly for that intended usecase.

If it would be helpful, what I liked about foliate and kybooks:
- In addition to preferring the freemium/foss model, I often sort by tag to browse all books that have a certain tag.
- For formatting, I liked how the text alignment CSS from the epub was respected, since many epubs I read have variable text alignment.
- I also liked how kybooks3 saved metrics on how fast I read and the integrated dictionary/web browser.
- Mainly, readers are an aesthetic choice to me, so how similar they are to iOS is important, thus consistency of design for foliate's gui with other linux apps and the similarities between Books and kybooks3 is what drew me to these examples.

Maybe BookFusion is capable of most of these things, I probably haven't used it enough to know. I might give it another try!

JSWolf · 10-01-2023, 05:36 AM

How well do Foliate and Kybooks respect the CSS? It's OK to have overrides, but they should respect the CSS if any overrides are not used.

skillachie · 10-01-2023, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by odamizu

Hello skillachie! I saw BookFusion released a new version with page curl animation and no animation. Thank you!!

I noticed when using black background with white text, when page curl is selected the "back" of the page that's curling is white rather than black. Not sure how easy it would be to make the back of the page match the background color of the front of the page? The Kindle app and Apple's Books app does this. Thanks for considering.

, I purposely did not update you yet since it is still in beta. We only pushed that release due to a reading position sync bug and figured we should include what is already done.

I agree with you and we plan to have it done as well. Page curl effect , needs to also be implemented for Fixed Layout ePUBs and CBZ/CBR. Thanks for trying and providing feedback will reach out once done.

skillachie · 10-01-2023, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

It would be really good to remove the page curl animation bloat.

The good thing is that it is not the default and now readers will be able to choose between none, slide and curl.

To be honest personally I do not read with curl and did not see it as important. However, we can't deny that there is a large base of readers that like this. Apple Books removed it and it had to be returned.

Example https://discussions.apple.com/thread...2#258464992022

There are many other pages like this on other sites. We have also received the feedback as well. Just different strokes for different folks

odamizu · 10-02-2023, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by JSWolf

It would be really good to remove the page curl animation bloat.

Quote:

Originally Posted by skillachie

The good thing is that it is not the default and now readers will be able to choose between none, slide and curl ...

One person's bloat makes it possible for another person to use BookFusion without headaches caused by the visual disturbance of text sliding across the screen with every page turn. The "none" option also works for me, but "curl" makes for a more pleasant reading experience. (I'm not sure why the "slide" animation gives me headaches whereas my eyes can handle "curl", but there you go. I also use the "Reduce Motion" setting on my iPhone because those animations also give me headaches.)

So thank you, skillachie for offering options for all readers

arpeggioaccele · Yesterday, 12:39 AM

I have no idea, it's not something important to me. They respect the exact same CSS that I force every book to have manually in Calibre and that's all I care about. I don't use overrides because I already destructively fixed the original file

(I know, I know, but overrides weren't a thing on Books and I got used to it.)

(For reading on a small screen, I prefer to optimize the CSS to use the whole width of the screen at all times, skip lines between paragraphs and to have no embedded font.)

I never actually got foliate to work for me unfortunately. I can test kybooks3 for CSS behavior if I knew what to look for.

10-01-2023, 05:27 AM	#46
arpeggioaccele light mode user Posts: 49 Karma: 16268 Join Date: May 2023 Location: New England Device: I use the Calibre ebook-viewer on macos and Apple Books on ios.	Thanks for your response, I did not mean to say that there's anything wrong with BookFusion, I think it's a wonderful app, with a lot of my favorite features like seamless scrolling between chapters and description previews in the bookshelf. I'm just pedantic, lol. (In fact, I would simply use a plaintext viewer if it had a good catalog manager.) I did not know that Calibre Sync was an option, that sounds great! For additional context: - I installed BookFusion on both an iOS device and MacOS. - I read in scrolling view most often, I use paged mode when using a keyboard sometimes. - I got used to Iowan Old Style font so I always look to switch to that first. - I read from large collections of short epubs that I download, which makes it difficult to browse. As I understand, most readers do not do this and BookFusion is designed perfectly for that intended usecase. If it would be helpful, what I liked about foliate and kybooks: - In addition to preferring the freemium/foss model, I often sort by tag to browse all books that have a certain tag. - For formatting, I liked how the text alignment CSS from the epub was respected, since many epubs I read have variable text alignment. - I also liked how kybooks3 saved metrics on how fast I read and the integrated dictionary/web browser. - Mainly, readers are an aesthetic choice to me, so how similar they are to iOS is important, thus consistency of design for foliate's gui with other linux apps and the similarities between Books and kybooks3 is what drew me to these examples. Maybe BookFusion is capable of most of these things, I probably haven't used it enough to know. I might give it another try! Last edited by arpeggioaccele; 10-01-2023 at 05:30 AM.

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10-01-2023, 05:36 AM	#47
JSWolf Resident Curmudgeon Posts: 71,948 Karma: 122592963 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Roslindale, Massachusetts Device: Kobo Libra 2, Kobo Aura H2O, PRS-650, PRS-T1, nook STR, PW3	How well do Foliate and Kybooks respect the CSS? It's OK to have overrides, but they should respect the CSS if any overrides are not used.

Yesterday, 12:39 AM	#51
arpeggioaccele light mode user Posts: 49 Karma: 16268 Join Date: May 2023 Location: New England Device: I use the Calibre ebook-viewer on macos and Apple Books on ios.	I have no idea, it's not something important to me. They respect the exact same CSS that I force every book to have manually in Calibre and that's all I care about. I don't use overrides because I already destructively fixed the original file (I know, I know, but overrides weren't a thing on Books and I got used to it.) (For reading on a small screen, I prefer to optimize the CSS to use the whole width of the screen at all times, skip lines between paragraphs and to have no embedded font.) I never actually got foliate to work for me unfortunately. I can test kybooks3 for CSS behavior if I knew what to look for.