Very happy
Love shu books. The best reading app I have used. Like being able to change background to make it easier to read at night. Thanks
Very good
This is a very good e-book reader. It’s not perfect, but I like it better than Apple Books and the Kindle app. Unfortunately it seems that this app has been abandoned, with no updates in years, and some annoying issues with layout on a modern iPhone, so I lowered my score from 4⭐️ to 3.
Response from developer
Please note that the bug reported above only occurs when "Always Show Status Bar" is turned on AND "Page Margins" is set to be smaller than "Medium" (default). It will be fixed soon. In the meanwhile, do feel safe to update unless you're picky on that specific combination.
Best reading app
I love the shubook app. It’s very versatile and very user friendly. The only thing missing now is continuous scrolling. That would make it even better. Any chance of that?
Excellent, easy to use, well supported.
I’ve used Shubook for years now. It’s proven to be a very nice to use ereader and library app with excellent features. I like being able to customize the look and feel, and vertical swipe for brightness control is genius. Day/night mode is one touch away (unlike some other big players who’s app is fussy).
Library tools are great and being able to edit book covers and descriptions in the app is helpful. Import and export is easy and preserves metadata.
Pay the money, buy the app. It’s very good indeed.
Library tools are great and being able to edit book covers and descriptions in the app is helpful. Import and export is easy and preserves metadata.
Pay the money, buy the app. It’s very good indeed.
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Great
My go to epub reader. Works great and good developer support.
Great App
I've been enjoying Shubook for years. It does everything I need it to do,and it does it simply. I had a problem with the latest version, but the developer replied right away with a fix, so I can say I'm enjoying it again very much.
Response from developer
You may open Book Settings and turn off System Screen Brightness to get back your old preferred setting. As for the "bad color themes" issue, we can't reproduce the bug. Can you send us a screenshot with your iPhone model and iOS version number? Thanks. In fact, we're doing an update in a few days. So you'd better email us soon in order to catch the next train. :-)
Forever User Suggests Improvements
I have used ShuBook almost from its inception, through each subsequent version, and right up to the current 2M version. I love its simplicity, the ability to download ePub & PDF books from any source, add tags, download book covers, sort by author, change fonts, change to nighttime reading, bookmark, etc. etc. It's never eaten or lost a single word, much less a book and I've read thousands and store thousands of books.
Why only 4 stars? It continues to lag behind all other major e-readers by lacking the ability to highlight text and to add your own notes for future reference. This is a major setback for me. I'm a voracious reader and getting older. My memory isn't what it once was. I hate that this otherwise perfect e-reader has an almost unforgivable flaw. I also use Kindle because of their proprietary e-books. I love the highlighting and note writing, but find it unwieldy as a library for all my e-books. Please, please add these indispensable features!!!
Why do I continue to use it over Marvin, which I also have? Marvin is a beautiful, full featured, overblown memory hog that only lets me upload from certain sources. ShuBooks 2M is a very lean memory user. That's a priority for me.
Why only 4 stars? It continues to lag behind all other major e-readers by lacking the ability to highlight text and to add your own notes for future reference. This is a major setback for me. I'm a voracious reader and getting older. My memory isn't what it once was. I hate that this otherwise perfect e-reader has an almost unforgivable flaw. I also use Kindle because of their proprietary e-books. I love the highlighting and note writing, but find it unwieldy as a library for all my e-books. Please, please add these indispensable features!!!
Why do I continue to use it over Marvin, which I also have? Marvin is a beautiful, full featured, overblown memory hog that only lets me upload from certain sources. ShuBooks 2M is a very lean memory user. That's a priority for me.
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Best ereader out there!
I absolutely love Shubook. After Stanza was killed off I tried many apps that left me disappointed. Shubook is hands down the best and gets better with every update. The tagging system from Calibre now automatically sorts in Shubook. If you have a ton of books like I do this is a lifesaver.
Good
Not bad at all. The only thing I don't like is the icons in menu, they're ugly...
Love this app
I love this app it has saved me more time and energy and very easy to use only problem is io9 hopefully will be up and running soon because I hate using apples books app
