Booklover vs Lectio Markdown / PDF Reader

Booklover is a highly responsive and robust eBook reader. It excels at handling PDFs, manga, and scanned books. The metadata-driven library management system makes it easy to organize and enjoy a large collection of books in PDF, ZIP/CBZ, and RAR/CBR formats. Seamlessly integrated with iCloud Drive, books in the iCloud Drive/Booklover folder automatically appear in the app’s library and can be downloaded on demand. In the library, you can organize books by genres and arrange them using various bibliographic details such as title, author, publisher, and more. With the search field and powerful Library Navigator, you can quickly locate a book among thousands in your collection. Customize your reading experience with settings for each book, including page layout, transition axis and style, cropping, filters, progress direction, background, and more. Booklover supports bookmarks with titles and notes, as well as PDF text annotations (highlights), text search, and a table of contents. Main Features: # General • Manage and view eBooks (PDF, ZIP/CBZ, RAR/CBR) • Support for archived image files in JPG, PNG, GIF, HEIF, WEBP, AVIF, and JPEG XL formats • Automatic syncing of book files placed in iCloud Drive/Booklover. On-demand caching (download) of the remote files • Import files via iTunes (Windows), Finder (Mac), AirDrop, Drag & Drop, "Open with..." etc. • Import files via apps from various cloud storage services, such as Dropbox and OneDrive, as well as other services accessible through the iOS Files app. • Slide Over / Split View (iPad) • Hardware keyboard support (mainly in the reader) # Library • Section books by genre (ON/OFF) • The Library Navigator (ON/OFF) • Histories of added and opened books • Context Menu for individual books (long-press a book cover) • Change sort order: By Title, Author, Publisher, Filename, Added Date, etc. • Alphanumeric Index Labels (ON/OFF) • Toggle display of cover accessories • Adjust cover grid size • Responsive Shadow (shows page volume with shadow) • Filter books by Status, Genre, Tags, etc. • Search books by various bibliographic details, file name, and tags # Reader • PDF text annotations (highlights) with notes, text search, and a table of contents • Bookmarks with titles and notes • Lists of bookmarks and PDF annotations • Page transition settings: Axis (Horizontal, Vertical), Style (Scroll, Continuous Scroll, Stack, Crossfade, Zoom fade, Instant) • Progress direction setting: Left to Right, Right to Left (for vertical text, manga, Arabic, etc.) • Page layout setting: Automatic, Single-Page, Two-Pages (spread) • Separate page layout settings for view orientation (Portrait / Landscape) • Page trimming (for images only) • Page sizing: Show All, Width-Fit, Height-Fit • Page thumbnail view (overview, bookmarks) • Image correction filters • Dynamic background (When the "Background Color" option for a book is set to "Dynamic") • Adjust page spread position (Insert adjuster page at the beginning of the book body) • Text recognition within images (with compatible devices only) • Export (share) the currently displayed page # Book Management • Edit metadata: Title, Author, Genre, Publisher, Published Date, ISBN, etc. • Edit Tags (Can be used as filter criteria in the side menu) • Extract metadata (title/author) from PDFs • Extract various metadata from file names with configurable extraction rules • Automatic/Manual cropping of book covers • Batch modification of book settings and metadata • Transfer book files: "Open with...", AirDrop, Drag & Drop, etc. • Can manage the content files and data separately ("Ghost Book") ——————————————— # Acknowledgments [Books used in the screenshots] • "Give My Regards to Black Jack" by SHUHO SATO (Manga on Web: http://mangaonweb.com) • Public domain books from Feedbooks (http://www.feedbooks.com) • Public domain comics from digitalcomicmuseum.com (http://digitalcomicmuseum.com)

A bookshelf for your PDFs and Markdown files, on iPhone and iPad. Bring in files from the cloud or the Files app, turn their pages in two-page spreads, and write on them with Apple Pencil. Made for you if • You want to read scanned books and comics in spreads, the way you read them on paper • You read papers and documents and want to write notes on them with Apple Pencil • You keep notes, AI chat logs or READMEs in Markdown and want to read them calmly, page by page • Your PDFs are scattered across cloud services and you want them on one shelf Collect: PDFs and Markdown on one shelf From "Add Books", bring in files from any place that appears in the Files app, such as iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox. You can also open Lectio from the share sheet in another app, or drag and drop files onto the shelf. A Markdown (.md) file becomes an A4 PDF with its headings, lists, tables and code laid out, and takes its place on the shelf. The same file is never added twice, and password-protected PDFs can be added too. Books are kept on your device, so you can read them without a connection. Lectio only reads your cloud files and never changes or deletes them. Read: turn pages like a book Each book remembers its layout (two-page, single page or vertical scroll) and its left or right binding. Right-bound books lay out their spreads from right to left, so comics and vertical text read in their natural direction. Swipe or press the arrow keys to turn the page, and tap the page to hide the buttons. Lectio remembers where you stopped, so the next time you open a book you carry on from there. Switch the page color to night or sepia, adjust the brightness, and keep the screen on while you read. Write: Apple Pencil and four highlight colors Turn on Handwriting in the toolbar and a tool palette appears. Write directly on the page with Apple Pencil or your finger, choose pens, colors and the eraser, and your writing stays with each page. Highlight text in yellow, green, pink or blue, and find your highlights again under Highlights in the sidebar. Press and hold text to copy it, look it up or search the book for it, and tap links on the page. Find: contents, thumbnails and text search Jump to a chapter from the table of contents, or to any page from the thumbnail grid or by its page number. Search the text of a book and each match is highlighted in yellow. Books made from Markdown are searchable too. In the library, find books by name. Organize: favorites, bookmarks and collections Each cover shows how far you have read: New, a percentage, or Finished, and you can sort by Recently Read. See your favorite books, bookmarked pages and highlights in lists. A bookmark keeps the opening words of its page, so you know where you left it. Sort books into collections and arrange them in any order you like. Rename books, or select several to share them, add them to a collection or delete them in one go. Deleted books stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days, where you can bring them back. Widget, Spotlight and Handoff The Home Screen widget shows the books you read recently, and tapping one opens it where you left off. Search for books in Spotlight by name or by words in the text. With Handoff, pass the book and page you are reading to another iPhone or iPad that has the same PDF. iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo Lectio supports iPhone Duo. Read on the outer display when it is closed, and in spreads on the large inner display when you open it. The buttons sit in the vertical bar along the edge, out of the way of the page. Keyboard, remotes and VoiceOver Press ⌘O to add books, ⌘F to search, ⌘B to bookmark and ⌘W to close. Pages turn with the arrow keys, so a Bluetooth keyboard or a page-turner remote that sends arrow keys works too. VoiceOver and Dark Mode are supported. You can also share and print your books. Start by tapping + in the library and add your first book.