eBoox - fb2 ePub book reader

Simply put, too good to be free and ad-free! Had been trying to find a replacement for Apple’s e-reader which happens to be an embarrassment but found nothing appealing, and some even asked for I regular payment for you to use all their features. Came across this, and well, if you download a couple of others you’ll clearly notice the difference in the interface, the smoothness and all. I saw some people leaving bad reviews, which I couldn’t really understand. This is a beautifully designed app (time has clearly been put into the design) but also does what an e-reader should be doing and as I mentioned earlier is COMPLETELY FREE WITH NO IN-APP PURCHASES when I’m writing this review. Have used the app only about half an hour but was really excited to come leave a review and thought the negative reviews I’d seen were pretty unfair. Will update my review once I come upon other positives or areas of improvement. :)

I began using this app recently because the one I used previously stopped working. It works very well and has a lot of the features I feel are important for reading ebooks. The interface is really clean. I like how you can sort books into shelves and hide books you’ve finished reading. Something this has that I can’t go without is vertical scrolling when reading ebooks. I do wish that when scrolling a book I could simply scroll by swiping quick instead of that causing the book to scroll a full page down. Additionally when scrolling, you snap into positions so that no text is cut off on the screen. This is overall a good thing, but it feels a little awkward to me. One more thing is that most of the fonts supported are sans serif. In fact, there is only one serif font, so that is a little disappointing. There is one menu that hasn’t been translated into english, the “about” page for any ebook. Though it’s easy enough to figure it out. Overall it works very well and my only complaints are small.

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This would be perfect for me. My main gripe with it is that you can't export (share) anything in your library. It's stuck in this app. You won't be able to bring it anywhere else. I don't feel comfortable putting all my eggs in one basket. Also, this can't open PDFs, which isn't cool. I'd like to be able to carry them around too. Might as well add it onto the list of various supported formats anyway. Speaking of other formats, I'm not sure if .mobi is actually supported. I tried AirDropping several files (separately), and I didn't get an option to import them here. It automatically sent them to another app I had (presumably by default because it was the only one I had installed that can read/open them). This is also a big issue for me. These are absolutely common features. It's just about if they're willing to let us or not. I appreciate that this is free, but hopefully the developers care enough to take action, because this app will be 5-star worthy, provided they don't take any steps backwards. They'll have fully earned my respect. Thanks for reading

I like what I see so far, but it hasn't been much. There's no option to turn off the slow, slightly buggy scroll animation. There are 5 different fonts, all sans serif. Those easy to fix design flaws will hopefully be fixed soon so I can try this out more fully. There are plenty of easy to access controls so it looks promising. Oh, and big bonus points for not trying to force G**gle on me even though he devs clearly use it (gmail addy).

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This app used to do its job pretty well before this update. Now it's useless. The books never transfer from the previous app to this one. It keeps trying for HOURS without transferring a single thing! Now I lost all my books because the old version doesn't open even if you delete this version. Why create a new app instead of updating the previous one? Better yet, why keep updating something that was working perfectly? Stop trying to fix what doesn't need fixing!