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Update makes thing worse
Finally you added simplest thing: “disable quick action”. Thank you for that, maybe i will try to go back to your reader from ibooks finally.
Crop margins works too again.
And ui in-book make sense at last.
But in process you broke more than you fix.
Now pdf have to load every page for so long! And i see loading icon at screen almost all the time. Remove that thing, i'm able to differentiate loaded page myself without ui visual noise. Alternative renderer throws so many errors and unusable.
Tiled bookshelf ui have so much unrelated noise where should be only book name (vertical) list, period.
Ebookdroid on ipad is all i need, you second to that, but soo behind....Show lessNaidiam
Not opening anything
I’ve tried opening a book and it hung for about 15 minutes and finally “sort of” opened. But then I wasn’t able to get past the first page of the book. Closed the app and it gets stuck trying to open the book again. Deleted the app, rebooted, reinstalled a book that I knew didn’t have DRM and same issue. Verified that my internet was working (200mbps down and 100 up), so it is not a connection issue. I do software testing as my job. I don’t want to have to do it on apps I get to relax by reading.
Update-now that I have tried and failed to open a book multiple times, when I was finally able to get back to the “home page” there are multiple copies of the book. Sigh!!!Show lessJakeindc
Developer Response
It's very strange issue we cannot reproduce. Can you send this book to info@ obreey-products.com for verification and issue fix Thanks!Great app, but has an issue w/Dropbox
I really liked the app since its early days. It’s quite great. Maybe paging could be more smooth.
Dropbox integration doesn’t work for me, though. It’s just empty. Maybe it’s because my Dropbox is huge, and the app only tries to read a portion of it?
Anyway, I don’t want the entirety of it synced to the reader. Can we please have a feature - select which directory to sync?
Thank you.
Edit: it’s very simple. I authorized the app to access Dropbox. It never asked which folder, I assume it’s all of it. Dropbox icon in the app is active, but when I tap it, the list is empty. Refresh doesn’t change it.
BTW, it would be nice to have a feedback option in the app. The current website is useless, it only allows feedback for hardware ebooks. Maybe it will leave less negative reviews in the App Store.Show lessVic765
Custom margin adjustment has been broken
PocketBook Reader is a unique, outstanding reader for people who like continuous, non-stop scrolling. No other app offers this luxury to read page after page without hands. But the latest update has broken the custom margin adjustment. Now, as soon as you adjust the margin for one page, the margin adjustment for the previous page disappears.
Many books have different margin spacing for even and odd numbered pages. Even and odd require different margin adjustments. That feature worked very well until this latest update. The broken feature now makes continuous scrolling, page after page, no longer possible for many books. Please repair this wonderful, but now broken, custom margin adjustment feature. Until then, I cannot use PocketBook Reader any longer for many of my PDF books.Show lesskarma3333333
Updating my review - Love and user interface suggestions
This is still hands down my favorite reader. The pdf wrapping is superior compared to a big competitor.
However, in the last update or two, pdf wrapping occasionally skips a bit of text (like if you chose to hide rows in Excel). Sometimes that text looks almost like two lines as if line spacing was set to .5 instead (half) of normal spacing. Doing a slightly smaller or larger view fixes it. It has happened with PDFs and maybe library books. Would have to check. Maybe I should reinstall the app since it happened on 6s and now the newest iphone.
Still, it’s a great app.
Thanks, Awesome app!Show lessAshleyZM
Great Adobe alternative, buggy text-to-speech
I read a number of protected Adobe PDFs for work, and wanted a more flexible app than Digital Editions. Specifically, I wanted to be able to export my notes and highlights, which PocketBook does very well. The display and scrolling options offer reading variety. However, the app's built in text to speech is buggy. No matter what voice I pick from the menu or how many times I tap Apply, PocketBook insists on the Aaron voice. I cannot change it. But if you're not using text to speech, it's a wonderful app that blows Adobe out of the water.Show lessSusan Ashworth
please add watch app
please consider adding watch all to control listening of the audiobooks with bookmarking option. it would be convenient to play/pause or choose an audio book right from Apple watch when running and doing some other activity.Good-but-not-great
Terrible app
Reply to developer:
I had books in my app. I was reading one. I open app and find I am logged out. It refuses to log me in. Instead of giving me the option to log in it keeps trying to make me create a new account. I go through new account creation, I think, using my previous user name and password. It lets me into the app. No books, books are gone. Now it will not let me add books. It does not see the books download to my device. Is that more clear?
Halfway through reading a book I own on Smashwords this app logs me out and deletes all my books. Now I have no idea where I stopped reading in the book. I also can’t get it to recognize any of the books saved to my device or get it to let me add new ones. What good is a book reader with no book or access to books.Show lessRoadgecko352
Developer Response
Hey! Please write to our support: info @ obreey-products.com and state the essence of the problem that you described here. Specify the account that was before you created the new and new account. They will try to help you recover your data. Thank you for your feedback.Good except quick action zones
(EDIT) Elaborating. The quick action zones make it so that if you, say, tap on the right side of the page screen it will go forward one page. However, this is completely unnecessary and makes no sense in scroll mode where there are no pages. In settings you can only change each zone from being forward or back. There needs to be an option to disable them altogether so that they are not accidentally tapped.
Would rate this five stars if it were possible to disable quick action zones completely. They are such a nuisance especially in continuous scroll mode where it is useless and only makes it harder to select etc.Show less123546756787
Developer Response
Hi! Your wishes have been transferred to the development department! Thanks!Crashes a bit but I love it when it works
This is the only app I’ve found that lets me highlight and make notes on PDF textbooks and find them easily later in a separate tab. However, if I flip pages too fast or sometimes when I open the app at all, it just crashes over and i er sometimes. It seems to be doing it more and more often lately. Maybe I need to delete some books?Show lessI❤1D4EVER8415
