FBReader vs Readride

FBReader is a fast and easy-to-use e-book reader for iPhone and iPad. It supports all major e-book formats, including ePub (with key ePub3 features), Kindle azw3, and fb2 (.zip). You can open both unprotected books and ePub files protected with Readium LCP DRM. FBReader also reads RTF, Word (.doc), HTML, and plain text, so you can keep all your books and documents in one place. Read anywhere and pick up right where you left off. FBReader can sync your library, reading positions, bookmarks, and more across devices using the FBReader Book Network, a cloud service powered by Google Drive. If you prefer managing files yourself, you can download books in your browser and open them directly with FBReader. A wide range of appearance and behavior options lets you customize the reading experience to match your preferences. Free version and upgrade options: • The free version allows up to 10 books in your library. • The built-in translation feature is disabled. Upgrade to the full version to remove these limits and enjoy the complete FBReader experience.

Readride puts what you read in one spot, a few words at a time, so your eyes stay still and the text comes to you. Add a novel, a news article, an essay, a PDF, or an ePub. Readride tidies it first and shows you what it took out. Then the words appear in the middle of the screen, with short pauses at commas and at the ends of sentences. How they are grouped, where the emphasis falls, and how fast they come are fitted to each of 44 languages. Pause, and the text around your place opens up. ■ Tidied before you read • PDF headers, footers, and page numbers taken out • Lines broken mid-sentence joined back together • Ads and related-link lists around web articles taken out • A list of everything taken out on Get Ready, each one restorable • Pages with no text layer flagged and marked in the text • The reading language, chosen from the text and changeable on Get Ready ■ Reading in one spot • A few words at a time in the middle of the screen • Short phrases kept together when splitting them loses the meaning • Grouping, emphasis, and pause marks fitted to 44 languages • Japanese, Chinese, and Thai divided into words, though written without spaces • Arabic, Hebrew, and Urdu shown right to left • Pauses at commas, sentence ends, and paragraph ends • The text around your place whenever you pause • Any word you tap as the place to go on from • Back one sentence, or on to the next • A speed kept for each language, pauses in five steps • Your place kept to the character, even after changing text size • Your shelf and your place kept the same on devices signed in to the same iCloud account ■ What you can add • Articles shared from Safari • Text files (txt and md) • PDFs, including password-protected ones • ePubs without DRM • Pasted text ■ Readride Pro • More documents: 3 on your shelf to begin with, no limit with Pro • A ZIP of text files added as one document • Document Map: reading time for each section, what you have read and what is left • The name of the section you are in, shown above the words • Skip sections you turn off: appendices, references, or any section turned off in Document Map • Find More with AI: suggestions for headers and episode headings the rules missed, on iPhones and iPads that support Apple Intelligence ■ Privacy • No personal data collected • No account and no sign-in • No ads and no outside analytics