Bookari Ebook Reader Premium app for iPhone and iPad
4.6 (
4816 ratings )
Productivity
Book
Developer:
Mantano
4.99 USD
Current version:
4.7, last update: 6 years ago
First release : 29 Dec 2013
App size: 106.23 Mb
The best ebook reader platform on the market: user friendly, powerful, fast, with synchronized library, this book reader provides unprecedented flexibility, speed and reading comfort.
Highlight excerpts, take notes in your books, listen to them thanks to the vocal synthesis, organize your books and notes, add your favorite bookstores and much more!
OVERVIEW
- Synchronized bookshelves: Switch between your phone and tablet and always find your books, reading positions, collections, tags, ratings, bookmarks, in their most recent state.
- Supports Adobe and Sony DRM, allowing you to read ebooks protected against hacking
- Customizable Stores section with integrated OPDS browser, and options to add links to your preferred bookstores
- Supports the most common ebook formats (EPUB2, PDF) as well as interactive multi-media books (EPUB3)
FLEXIBLE EBOOK READER
- Bookmark pages, highlight or underline text, add notes to a page or to a selected text
- Pin the navigation panel to display your notes next to the text
- Enjoy your PDFs even on smartphones thanks to the advanced PDF support, with lightning-fast vertical and horizontal scroll, Pan & Zoom
Advantages of the Premium version
- Listen to your books with the vocal synthesis
- Customize the display of EPUB books by creating your own themes, adjusting font, line height, colors, etc.
- Find quickly all occurrences of a word in a book with the advanced search function
- Create your own personalized table of contents by naming your bookmarks
- Create your own tailored lexicon progressively, filled with the words you searched in the dictionary
SYNCHRONIZED BOOKSHELVES
- Edit your book details in a very simple way: Title, author, language, publisher
- Organize them in collections, manage their tags and find them instantly with quick access filters (tags, authors, rating...) or with the search function
- Thanks to the synchronization functions, you will retrieve your organization on all your synced devices and even in the website interface of the Cloud
ADD BOOKS EASILY
- Browse the preconfigured bookstores or the OPDS catalogs and websites you have added in the "My Stores" section.
- Connect to your Dropbox, Drive and Box account and select the books you want to add
NOTEBOOK
- Retrieve the saved definitions and the notes taken in all your books in the notebook, organize them as in the bookshelves
Pros and cons of Bookari Ebook Reader Premium app for iPhone and iPad
Bookari Ebook Reader Premium app good for
So many great features to support and streamline organization and access of my library...books, articles, etc. Wishlist: Allow sharing/downloading of PDFs from the app to drop box/email to facilitate better access to actual files on IOS.
I am so Happy! This update is Amazing. Now I am in a good mood for start reading my books again!
Thank you!!!
Some bad moments
Apparently Montano doesnt want my money for the cloud service. Every time I try to subscribe, I get error message. I cant even get into the My Account page without getting error messages.
Last but not least, I cant even get a reply from them to give me any inkling as to what the problem might be on their end.
If this doesnt get resolved in the next 48 hours Ill be looking into a different app to spend my money on.
Its really to bad because I really love the functionality of the app and the cloud service.
Buggy.
For example, the text selection in epubs does not work: it is very difficult to select a particular word, and when the finger leaves the screen the selection changes...Also the selection handles do not work !
Im so excited to find this app for my ios tablet. I have used it on my Nexus 7 and love the beauty of it. I have been looking for an app that could handle pdfs and epub files on my iPad and now I have found it. I just tried it on my iPad and its similar to my Nexus 7, except the Nexus app is smoother. Also, some features are different, but works the same way. At the bottom of the screen it says annotate instead of write, and the highlight feature does not place the choice colors at the top of the screen for easy selection while highlighting. I found that feature less time consuming and faster highlighting. Im hoping I will get use to using it this way for ios. Thanks for the dictionary feature, it comes in handy. I would love to see a selection for underlining and freehand drawing on both tablets. I have iAnnotate, and its a wonderful app for pdfs on my ios, but lackluster on my Nexus. If only they did epubs on ios, I would not have needed another app. Within the last 2 weeks Ive tried MarginNote and Wireshare apps. I thought MarginNote would do it all, but no underlining, dictionary or freehand drawing. It will be useful for other things. Wireshare is not a good epub reader in my opinion. It has all the needed features for PDFs and many other things. Mantano should do the job and hopefully my search is over. Thanks Mantano for developing this app for ios users. I know it will get better!!
ps: (4 stars only because it doesnt have that wonderful highlighting color choice feature at the top of the screen for easy selection as the Nexus)
I just noticed page turning is really smooth on the ios!
14 February 2014
Im having a hard time finding out how to activate voiceover and change font size. Ive gone on the website and tried the suggestions, but nothing. Maybe Im not following the instructions correctly. I just dont see settings - voiceover or font size even when I swipe as instructed. Help!
I have used Mantano on my nexus for 6 months. I have over 300 titles, some books and others are documents. I have found it the easiest reader for creating collections, adding tags for refined sorting, annotating, and gathering notes. I subscribe to the premium version, which lets me sync across devices. I am so glad there is now an ios version that I can install on my phone. I have found it far more useful and flexible than Aldiko, Moon+, and certainly better than any of the specialized readers such as kindle, nook, or google reader.
This reader comes without the cloud service, note taking capabilities and other powerful features available in the other competing platform. I changed to Ipad hoping I would have a strong reader with Mantano, but I feel deceived. This is not in line with my expectations.
Basics are in place, but critical reading comfort features are missing, such as turning "page turn" special effect off are missing. Readers need control over all aspects of the ebook experience.
