Shows promise.
Needs to have an author-sort that returns a list of authors, so one can tap-through to get the authors books. (Which should then be internally sortable by date-added, alphabetical, or – and this is a tricky one – publication order, which might have to be added by the user.)
Ideally, it would also have a way to change the cover (say, you have Phonto and are making covers for fanfic from AO3), but I'm not seeing this just now. I'll try to come back and edit the review if I'm wrong.
There's also no way to give money to the devs? Concerning. We lost Marvin (the ideal ereader) because the app wasn't drawing in enough to sustain the App Store fee.
Response from developer
You can find all books from any given author contextually by tapping and holding (or tapping on …), selecting "Contributors" and then selecting the contributor that you want. You can also search by author, this is supported as well. True author sorting can be difficult because EPUB files often lack a string to sort them properly, so you end up with a mix of cases where either the first name or last name is listed first. Feel free to contact us through our support (https://support.thoriumreader.com) or Discord server to discuss this further, we're always glad to receive this sort of feedback.
Garbage
Not even turning to landscape mode zooms in properly, it shows you two pages at once!! If you can’t read the tiny default font then you have to zoom in manually on EVERY PAGE.
Response from developer
You've probably opened a PDF or EPUB Fixed Layout if you cannot change the font size. These formats are not designed to allow the user to change the font size, you need a normal EPUB for that (also called a reflowable EPUB). Zooming is supported on both PDF and EPUB Fixed Layout using pinch to zoom. Feel free to contact our support at ios@thoriumreader.com or https://support.thoriumreader.com for additional help.
Shortfalls
Response from developer
Improving our support for audio is at the top of our roadmap right now. With our 1.4 version (planned for October/November) we'll introduce support for audiobooks as well as additional controls for the read aloud feature. Being able to read and listen at the same time is on our list of planned features, with controls over what gets highlighted (sentence, word or both) and how (control over color and style).
