BookReader5.14

Can't save current view for current book or pdf or the next one. I have to set it up every time I open another document. I want to show thumbnails and have it fit to screen and fit to page every time. I'm uninstalling until it's fixed.

come a long way...one of the few readers a scholar can use for research.

I was about the buy this app. But saw some reports of users book library get wiped out during the v5 update. Told developer my concerns about. Here is the exchange from their forums: employee: I’m really sorry about you library. Your case is the second among 3500 updates till now. Something went wrong when migrated on the new datastore. meit: I am concerned here. Saw same bug reported on MAS. I am about to buy but this bug makes me want to wait. [...] employee: This is not a bug. There are many other users upgraded without any problem. I think it is unavoidable that some upgrades may have a problem. meit: Not an acceptable answer. I have been doing QA for many decades (am 57) for many companies with many different products. I break apps. I have seen and reported app bugs that corrupt a database file making migration during updates break. And had to hand hold users whose data is gone — its painful. Did you bother to ask if there was Time Machine back up; did you reach out to help restore?? Database corruption bugs is one the of the most important bugs and hardest to test for. Just because many users have no problems doesn’t mean there is no bug. Trust my hard earned experience, there is one. If you want to just blow the data damage off, then you really don’t want my money — ever. Here was I ready to buy; Disappointed.

Quick comment on a point the Dev made above: "Perfume of the Books is not yet implement..." Priceless! However, I believe the word you're looking for is "scent." Perfume is something like Chanel #9. :-)

Tip: There are a few apps that will de-DRM eBooks so they can be read by apps such as BookReader. Search MU for "epubor" for their products or do a DuckDuckGo* search on "mac DRM ebook drm removal" to find others that are often free. *Google is evil. Change your search habit and use DDG. Yoiu'll be glad you did.

since stanza is abandonware, calibre is overkill for just a quick look into an epub, and other apps are only available from the appstore (dear developers -- don't do that), this has become my go-to app for anything i can't read in preview. i'm not particularly into the skeuomorphism, but it is nice eye candy for people who like that sort of thing -- it looks like it belongs on the mac compared to a lot of cross-platform software.. it can bookmark, search, change covers, fonts and sizes, has configurable themes. it's stable, and under steady development -- the price is definitely justified.

Not a polished Application. I have yet to find a means of removing an e-book (including duplicates) that are in its library !