01-09-2016, 04:44 AM | #16 |
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Brightness
One more vote for the vertical swipe to control brightness which i use a lot in marvin
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01-09-2016, 09:26 AM | #17 | |
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Which edition of BookMaster is best for you? * BookMaster CE reads DRM-free EPUB. * BookMaster SE has two additional features: 1. Become an OPDS/HTML webserver for your own books to share with others 2. Read PDF files with a viewer like Modern Book, and note highlights as images It imports from Calibre via OPDS. |
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01-09-2016, 09:07 PM | #18 | |
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Brightness control with vertical swipe
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BookMaster CE has three reader views: (a) Classic Book View: a leather-bound book with realistic page-curl animation (b) Modern Book View: an unbound book with realistic page-slide animation (c) Modern Scroll View: a vertical scroll with top and bottom rollers The planned feature will be available for (a) Classic Book View and (b) Modern Book View, but not for (c) Modern Scroll View, as the vertical swipe gesture is already used to indicate vertical scrolling. Moreover, BookMaster SE has an addition view for PDF, where the vertical swipe gesture is already used for other purposes. The vertical swipe gesture should be a single-finger swipe. A two-finger swipe may be easily misrecognized as a pinch-and-spread, a convenient gesture for changing to a new font size for all 3 EPUB views. Of course, this proposed feature can be turned off by the user, if she does not like it, for whatever reasons. |
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01-09-2016, 09:30 PM | #19 |
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Import books from Dropbox
Yes, you can import books from dropbox easily.
First, add www.dropbox.com as a user-defined HTML webpage by - Go to the Websites tab in Exchange (which is behind Library/Bookshelf) View - Tap Edit, tap "Add HTML site", and enter www.dropbox.com (Note that installation of Dropbox app is not required.) Second, tap this new HTML entry, and login. Third, tap the book file on Dropbox that you want to download. That's it. To download additional books, all you have to do is just repeating the third step. Easy enough? Well, I'll make it even easier for you by eliminating the first step by adding Dropbox as a built-in entry within the next 24 hours. |
01-09-2016, 11:39 PM | #20 | |
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Import books and tags from calibre
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Calibre tags will be imported as BookMaster tags. The management of tags is very powerful compared with all other reader apps. The more books you keep in the library, the more useful it is. Moreover, BookMaster SE can serve as an OPDS (and HTML) server, so that your iPad can become kind of "mobile calibre", which other devices running iOS, Android, Mac or Windows can get books from. |
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01-09-2016, 11:53 PM | #21 | |
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Sync reading progress via Dropbox...
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01-10-2016, 12:10 AM | #22 | |
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Why is BookMaster preferred?
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We do have plans for an iPhone version. However, we feel that we have not been doing a good job on spreading the words about the existing iPad version. A lot of nice features remain hidden gems to most of our target audience. In the short term, we want to give a higher priority to the non-trivial task of spreading the words via our website and forums like this one. Your feedback would be highly appreciated. |
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01-10-2016, 12:33 AM | #23 | |
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Request for fonts and optional header/footer display
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1. Semi-bold fonts: Out of the 23 built-in fonts provided by BookMaster, Gentium Book Basic (vs. Gentium Basic), Hoefler Text, Iowan Old Style, Vollkorn, Roboto are fonts with thicker strokes. Apparently you want some fonts with even thicker strokes. Can you give me one or more font names as examples? 2. An option to remove headers and footers: When the header and the footer on each page is not displayed, do you care if the resultant empty space is NOT used for displaying the body? On an iPad (vs. iPhone), the percentage of space taken by the header and the footer is very small, thus usually users don't care to "reclaim" the space. May I ask how many lines per page on average do you use for reading with BookMaster? |
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01-10-2016, 09:30 AM | #24 | |
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01-10-2016, 11:38 AM | #25 | |
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1) Realistic one, as it really should be (Samsung also has something similar in their note taking app). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VSpg8EIXNY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK-PmDoYT9I 2) Transition similar to Flipboard app. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6uxdXiDBE There seems to be AFKPageFlipper (ULView subclass) available and author claims it is very fast to execute in both portraite and landscape on iPad/iPhone. http://code4app.net/ios/Page-Flipper...03fab84b000000 http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDMzODcyNjQ4.html Last edited by markom; 01-10-2016 at 11:59 AM. |
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By the way, as of today is there any iOS reading app with the page turn animation as listed in (1) above? |
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01-10-2016, 11:46 PM | #27 | |
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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goog...400989007?mt=8 Last edited by markom; 01-11-2016 at 12:15 AM. |
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I wanted to like Marvin, but the page-turn options bothered my eyes and the fact that changing brightness in the app reset brightness for the entire device bugged me. I think Hyphen has a lot of promise, but the page-turn options give me a headache, making it unusable for me. Quote:
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