As I mentioned earlier, for the iPhone becoming a device for reading electronic books, there are many different software for every taste and color. The most functional and flexible and customizable solution in the face i2Reader lovers of total customization, but abundance of options and opportunities dazzled some users, which then is difficult to collect in a pile, in fact, read. If there is no desire to be picked in styles, settings, all sorts of FTP-servers for downloading books, you should pay attention to this program as BookReader (The link is in the App Store).
I advised her good friend, who noted the quality of the product interface and, of course, support the national FB2 format. at BookReader interface is really very nice. It is designed as an old bookshelf, on which stacks are placed ancient tomes, that is, the user downloaded books. Their sorting by name (note - not the names) of the author, and the information about the title and the author taken from the FB2 file properties. About viewing annotations and other information about the book, unfortunately, not a speech. But the library has a handy feature-mailbox search.
To download your books to your device, you can use an online service Readle Storage a built-in HTTP-server, in which case everything is done by means of the operating system, whether it be Mac OS X or Windows. The main thing is that the computer and the iPhone is running the program is in the same Wi-Fi network. When difficulties arise you can click on the icon with a question mark in the lower right corner in the Wi-Fi menu and read about all the nuances in the section help. Text in English, but quite simple to understand if there is at least a basic knowledge of the language. Another way to download books - a free library Project GutenbergTrue, it contains only English-language literature - about 30 thousand. books.
Before you start reading, you should look at the settings that will delight lovers of simplicity. You can adjust the font size (from "very little" to "very high"), headset and select a display style: an old yellowed paper, a night and a day with a regular white paper. It seems that with so many settings, the program will offer the user a little interesting, but then sat down to read you know - this is not true.
The first struck me very pleasing appearance of the book (using the default settings of medium size and font headset "old"), the presence of padding around text and beautiful animation of turning pages (tapom made in the left or right corner). In addition, for my eyes relished integrated styles «Old White» and «Night» - perfectly podobranny background color and text, do not irritate and are taken very, very well. Although this fact is quite individual and strongly narrows the audience of the program users. If none of the styles do not like, it is necessary to look for alternatives, as BookReader this item can not be set up. But, I think the proposed options should be acceptable for most users - very well they worked.
Available options while reading is also not much. You can lock the orientation of the screen, go to the content, view the file information (available only to the author and title of the book), adjust the font size and the headset, make the text search or jump to a desired him part. Not much, of course, but in most cases this is enough. The only thing that severely lacking - is the ability to switch styles on the fly.
Other features include support for hyphenation note, images in the text, as well as TXT format, RTF, EPUB, HTML and PDF apart FB2. Mostly progladyvaet Russian interface, but here a little, if I may say so. Of the minuses I note the inability to move to the last plaintext and the absence of a mark of the current chapter in the transition to the content. In the first case will be difficult if the library a lot of volume - enough to get out of the books in the main menu to change the style, and you have to look back to read just a folio. through search engine helps, but it's the extra steps and time spent.
On the iPhone 3GS program runs very smoothly on the machines of the previous generation, in principle, too, except if the library more than a dozen books. Then it will slow down your bookshelf. Overall, the program is interesting for those who want to run the application without problems and read. Happy beautiful interface, animations, nicely done styles. I am happy to use it before the last update i2Reader, when the increase in the number of standard styles and the opportunity to choose any background image when they are set up. However, as I mentioned above - the simplicity of the program it is on one hand a plus, especially if like standard styles, on the other - net, as set up, if you want to change something, lends itself to a little elements. For the price, it is comparable with i2Reader, that is, standing in the App Store $ 5.