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can’t try without account
Can’t even try the app without setting up an account. And they want you to give them your birthday for some reason.iTunes Enthusiast
Not all it promises with hidden cost
Nice user interface. However opening books reveals a reading format that severely lacks the look/feel of other ebook readers. Additionally when having an extensive library of ebooks, when importing more than one hundred and one books, One must subscribe monthly. NOT AS ADVERTISED!Mindonly0
The best
The best reader I have nowadays. Add support of bookshelves in iPad tablets. That is my only request. Keep up the great work.Liquidmovie
Not for close readers
No highlights/notes export
Can’t import books from Dropbox/iCloud
Decent font selection, can go big and boldJesse the K
Makes eBook Organization Easier
I have a ton of ebooks, and right now I’m using a cloud service to try to hold on to them all. But - I have so many reading devices (windows, Mac, iOS, Android, kindle, etc.) that it’s a pain to organize and manage my books. It actually stresses me out a bit because I don’t know what books are on what device.
Enter BookFusion. First off - if you’re a light reader with a smaller (or cycle-able) library, the free version will absolutely meet your needs. If you’re like me and have over 150 ebooks the premium version is worth it. I did the math - early adoption subscription turns out to be $3.33 a month. I will gladly give up a bag of chips and a soda to have a safe place to beautifully organize my books.
Bonus: Book Fusion has a fully functional website. So I can upload books and read them straight out of my library. And the Calibre plugin that will sync my libraries between my computers looks promising. I’m looking forward to trying it.
I’ll update my review with any honest thoughts after I have used this for a while.Show lessGeektoria
Too good to be true
When I saw that this app claimed to be able to sync my Calibre library across Android and iOS devices I thought I'd finally found what I've been searching for forever. And it's free. No in-app purchases. Totally free! Well, no, it definitely isn't. It's the worst kind of app--rentalware. Download once and pay forever.
The trouble started right away. To even test the app, you have to create an account where you're asked, among other things, to choose a password. After completing all the fields and submitting the data, I got an "error 101" message. No indication of what the problem was. I guessed it might be my password--no guidelines were supplied--so I tried again. Still got the error message. Changed the password a second time. This time my data was accepted and I was taken to my new BookFusion web account.
The way BookFusion works is that your books are uploaded to BookFusion's own cloud storage. From there, a client app on your mobile device downloads the content. In fairness, if you only want to sync a small number of small files there are no rental fees. How many and how small? I couldn't tell you. The very first file I tried to upload, a single Lonely Planet travel guide, just sat there with a message that said "preparing" and no indication that something wouldn't eventually happen. Nothing ever did. I finally cancelled and tried a small file (10MB) which began to upload immediately. From what I've been able to gather since, the size and number limitations disappear if you're willing to pay $35/year forever.
I don't ever use rentalware so I can't speak to whether or not the app works as promised. I will say that I've never downloaded an app that had hidden fees like this one. I can't help but wonder if this deception is an attempt to avoid paying Apple the 30% commission they demand for money made through the App Store. Regardless, the deceptive way this is presented to App Store customers is completely unacceptable.Show lesstlinn
Only cross platform option I found
TLDR: provides cloud sync, highlighting, and bookmarks but is slow on iPad and no info on limitations, if any, on the free plan.
I have a lot of ebooks in the form of PDFs, epubs, and mobis. I wanted something that would store all these ebooks (whether through my cloud services or their servers) and provide sync, bookmarking, highlighting, and not be tied to a major tech company like Apple, Google, or Amazon. Kindle is great for their ebooks but not much else. Apple Books is great for iOS devices and Macs, but does not support Windows. Google Play is decent but could not figure out the highlighting or bookmarking features. PDF support is terrible on all of the above.
After some googling I found book fusion. It seems to be everything I was looking for. Except it’s slow as hell on my iPad. Slightly better on my iPhone 6S. Syncing is slow as well.
Overlooking the speed issue, the mobile app does not have many options. You have to swipe to turn the page instead of a Kindle-esqe tap and can’t turn off the page turning animations, both of which are options in other services.
The UI/UX is terrible as well. To read a book takes two taps as well as going back to the library page, both of which are major actions of a ebook reader and should not be so hard. That extra tap quickly gets tiring.
I like that I can rate the books I have and the reading timer is nice. Sync works, albeit slowly. I just hope they fix the usability issues.Show lesssnam23
Keeps resetting my location in book
For days I had no problems, now all of a sudden everytime I open the app, it loads the book back at page 1. What the hell. Also a critical issue is when rotating your device you lose your spot as well, only not as bad, it goes back two pages, so you just have to quickly swipe and go forward two pages. Really buggy. Wish this was more reliable since it’s honestly the best idea. Cross platform syncing, bookmarks, underlining, upload any PDF or ePub.... yeah this app has HUGE potential. My only complaints are page tracking as outlined above.Show lesszskags
Limited Customization
Very basic reading application. Can’t override font in books nor did I see a way to override the page turn animations.SilverRubicon
