BookReader - read a book on the Mac (the contest is completed)

Appendix BookReader appeared two years ago, when Leonid Mezentsev, who lives in Italy, faced with a shortage of books in their native language. With E-ink screens Leonid friends could not because of their slow refresh, and suitable programs for reading books in Fb2 format is not found, and he was then very popular. Then the idea to write easy-reader books himself.

BookReader at first was very primitive, no frills, but with time beginning to grow into the app with new features, appearance becomes beautiful.

About a year ago, the application is already fully satisfy developer requests and version 1.2.3, it was decided to suspend the development. After some time the request satisfied users to continue working on the project and curiosity prompted Leonid Mezentsev to acquire developer account for Mac OS X. From that moment began a new page in the history of the project. Before the advent of the App Store BookReader has grown to version 2.0 and got some features distinguish it from the free version, such as bookshelves. Since the release (which is July of this year), the program began to develop rapidly in the development of I joined a professional designer, thanks to which now the app is more than dignity. Now BookReader - a commercially successful project, which are actively working.

When you first start, we can see a very beautiful wooden shelf on which to store all of your books. You can choose two options appearance: distributed as bookshelves, or in a list with the names of authors and titles of books. I think the first option more attractive, but it is desirable that all the books were with covers. Books can be sorted according to your desired criteria, there is a search, which is very useful to owners of an impressive collection of e-books.

The reader application pleases the user beautiful appearance mode. Reading my article, you may have noticed that I pay more attention to the appearance of the application, BookReader one of those apps that cause my sincere sympathy.

By default, the theme of imitating a real paper book lying on a wooden substrate. Especially cool it looks in full screen mode. In addition to standard topics, you can choose a transparent, night and notebook and a few others. With the book theme of the text is presented in two columns, and the topic is more suitable for notebook fans to read the text of one column. It should be noted that the creator of the application did not restrict the user's set of standard themes. If desired, you can dream up a little and make for a custom theme that will pleasantly complement the reading process. To control you can use the keyboard (there is the possibility to customize the hot keys), or by means of gestures.

Conveniently implemented bookmark management. They hide behind a retractable side panels, so you'll never lose the place where you left off reading.

The controls are located at the bottom of the application, if desired, in the settings you can specify the auto-hide, if you do not want to distract from the interface elements of reading.

The BookReader there are enough opportunities for customization. You can choose a font, depending on whether you prefer the grotesque or serif fonts, font size, indenting, line spacing, and color. Page turning animation can enable and select its speed. There is a search for text books. There are settings FB2 perobrazovaniya: method and encoding. Currently the app supports fb2 format, ePUB, html, doc, rtf, txt and zip archives of books in the above formats, all popular formats on the spot. The application supports import from iTunes, but books with DRM protection, BookReader not support.

The only thing to which I could find fault, it's page turning animation. Somehow too quite simply it is implemented against the background of the overall attractiveness of the application. Now on the AppStore approval is version 3.4, where this little flaw will be corrected. The developer has added a very nice animation of turning pages in the iBook style. Another Insufficient I could call it that, in full-screen mode is not the bookmarks bar, which I mentioned earlier. Hopefully this will be fixed in future versions.

Leonid Mezentsev told me about future plans regarding BookReader: «The app is developing and will develop rapidly. Ideally I would like to add DRM mechanisms for reading books, but this requires the consent of the major publishers, including Apple itself. Dialogue with the publishers is not conducted yet, but I think in the near future that can not be avoided. "

BookReader far exceeds similar programs of other developers like in appearance, and functionality, so that it can be considered a must have application for reading books Mac.

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Download from the App Store: BookReader
Price: $9.99
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System requirements: OS X 10.5 or higher