![]() It’s not great, but I haven’t found anything better and I seldom want to read an epub on a mac anyway, just check for a decent conversion, or look something up.įor metadata, I decided a while back that time spent fussing with metadata is time that could spent reading instead. epubs to open in ebook-viewer.app in the finder. On the mac I use the ebook-viewer.app from calibre (which I otherwise don’t like). (I email notes to myself in a simple enough html that they’re adequately of readable in plain text and they live in a dedicated mail folder.) User interface is pretty flexible. It can edit metadata, access and serve OPDS/HTML, pretty good notation, and you can export notes in several ways. There are three flavors, CX (free with limitations), CE (full features for epubs), and SE (full features for epubs and pdfs). ![]() Unfortunately there’s no version for Mac, but for iOS Mapleread is quite good. I’m too distracted by those gigantic side margins that make a column of biggish text on an iPhone only four to five words wide.įor now I’m limping on with Marvin, but I’d be thrilled if Books or another app were sufficiently customizable to replace it. That feature is the ability to adjust the side margin width to fit more text on the screen. I like the updates to Books, but of course there is just one niggly feature missing that prevents me from using it. The problem is that there seem to be no good alternatives out there, probably because Books is “good enough” for a lot of users. ![]() It’s still functional, but the custom contextual menu is gone, and the top line of text is partially obscured by the dynamic island of an iPhone 14 Pro. However, with iOS 16 and the iPhone 14 Pro, Marvin is starting to show its age. One great aspect of this app is that it also runs reasonably well on an M1 Mac. My go-to epub reader is Marvin 3, which is highly customizable but hasn’t been updated since 2018. (I was going to say “or music,” but if you’ve taken a look at your Apple Music library lately, the sorting there is even worse, and that’s not even taking into account duplicates, split albums, incorrect versions and album art, etc., etc.) “Apple is now a services company.” Yeah, right…. Apple should just cede the territory once and for all to Kindle, and stick to video. (Just as well, I suppose, because I really don’t feel like spending months editing the metada of 600 EPUB files.) Anyway, iBooks/Apple Books has sucked since very early on, and it still sucks. Earlier versions of iBooks let the owner alter the file metadata, but recent versions do not. Some titles are sorted by a, an, or the, while some are correctly sorted by the first word after the article. Title sorts show the same sort of nonsensical arrangement. In fact, the Apple Books author sort of titles by some prolific authors lists half their titles under their last name and half under their first name. For a decade or more half my authors have been sorted by last name, the other half by last name. Until Apple Books is capable of doing a simple author or title sort correctly, none of the rest matters. Pre-Orders, when they ship, will get stuck in this weird mode where it will only show me the preview and the “buy now” button even though I already paid. Between iPad and Mac seems reliable, phone is a crap shoot (all devices on latest 16.1 betas) I still occasionally have issues with syncing, even epubs i bought from the bookstore vs. They disappeared and haven’t reappeared even in 16.1 betas. And I wish you could name a theme and have it sync to all devices.Īlso I could’ve sworn I saw a setting for showing real page numbers but apparently Apple added that awhile ago and it’s only if the epub supports it.īriefly way back in early iOS 16 betas there were a bunch of extra shortcut actions for books that were really nice. I used that quite a bit and still miss after many months of beta use.īeing able to tap a theme and switch the settings in one go is nice, if (as is typcial for Apple) you like Apple’s defaults, but it’s a lot more taps to customize. You used to be able to set the brightness while reading separately from the system brightness.
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